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
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 *