Plant Lycopersicon esculentum (Solanaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Tomato

How this plant is used

Food

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
FUMARIC-ACID	7	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FURFURAL	6	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GABA	22	Fruit	220.0	480.0	-0.58	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-CAROTENE	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GENTISIC-ACID	8	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GERANYL-ACETONE	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GIBBERELLINS	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE	7	Fruit	not available	16300.0	-0.72	Duke, 1992 *
GLUTAMIC-ACID	8	Fruit	90.0	54053.0	3.18	Duke, 1992 *
GLYCERIC-ACID	3	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLYCINE	12	Fruit	23.0	3637.0	0.01	Duke, 1992 *
GLYCOLIC-ACID	4	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLYOXAL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GRAMISTEROL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GUAIACOL	18	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEMICELLULOSE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTADIEN-TRANS-2,CIS-4-AL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTADIEN-TRANS-2,TRANS-4-AL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEPTULOSE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HEXADIEN-TRANS-2-,TRANS-4-AL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Osteolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Oviposition-Stimulant	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ovulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Oxidant	3	Larson, R.A. 1987. Review Article Number 30. The Antioxidants of Higher Plants. Phytochemistry. 27: 969-978.
P450-2B1-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
P450-Inducer	1	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
P450-Inhibitor	2	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
PAF-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Pancreatoxic	1	Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000. Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Paralytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Parasiticide	1	Martindale's 29th
Parasympathomimetic	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Percutaneostimulant	1	Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990.
Perfumery	17	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Peristaltic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Pesticide	67	Duke, 1992 *
PGE2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Phagocytotic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Phospholipase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Phytoalexin	3	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.