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
CALCIUM	28	Fruit	60.0	2400.0	-0.34	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Leaf	not available	60800.0	2.89	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPESTEROL	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAPRYLIC-ACID	5	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Fruit	43400.0	717400.0	-0.35	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOXYLIC-ACID	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CELLULASE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CELLULOSE	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CERIUM	0	Fruit	7.0	60.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHLORINE	7	Fruit	not available	510.0	-0.33	Duke, 1992 *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID	77	Fruit	not available	18.0	-1.09	Duke, 1992 *
CHLOROPHYLL	21	Fruit	3.0	30.0	-0.79	Duke, 1992 *
CHLOROPHYLL-A	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHLOROPHYLL-B	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHOLINE	20	Root	not available	36.0	-0.41	Duke, 1992 *
CHOLINE	20	Shoot	not available	48.0	-0.70	Duke, 1992 *
CHROMIUM	24	Fruit	0.0	3.0	-0.09	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMALDEHYDE	60	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-3-HEXENOL-1	0	Fruit	4.0	40.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-5'-BETA-PSEUDOCAROTENE	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
Phytohormonal	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Pituitary-Stimulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Plasmodicide	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Polyamine-Synthesis-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Poultice	1	Martindale's 29th
Preservative	3	Merck 11th Edition
Previtamin-A	1	Duke, 1992 *
Prolactinogenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Proliferant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Prooxidant	5	Duke, 1992 *
Propecic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandigenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Sparer	1	Fujita, T., Nakatani, E., Funaishi, N., Sakuma, S., Fujimoto, Y. Potent inhibition of prostaglandin inactivation in rabbit gastric antral mucosal slices by selenium ions in-vitro. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 655-657, 1990.
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor	8	Duke, 1992 *
Prostatitigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor	2	Naim, M., Zehavi, U., Nagy, S., and Rouseff, R.L. Hydroxycinnamic Acids as Off-Flavor Precursors in Citrus Fruits and Their Products. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.14.
Protisticide	4	Martindale's 29th
PTK-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Pyrogenic	1	Conradson, T. B. G., Dixon, C. M. S., Clarke, B., Barnes, P. J. 1987. Cardiovascular Effects of Infused Adenosine in Man: Potentiation by Dipyridamole. Acta Physiol Scand, 129(3): 387-391.
Quinone-Reductase-Inducer	4	Duke, 1992 *