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Plant Lycopersicon esculentum (Solanaceae)

Common Names
Tomato
How this plant is used
Food
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
OLEIC-ACID 18 Fruit 310.0 5124.0 -0.44 Duke, 1992 *
OXALIC-ACID 9 Fruit 36.0 263.0 -0.29 Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID 25 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
P-HYDROXYBENZALDEHYDE 4 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Fruit 210.0 3471.0 -0.31 Duke, 1992 *
PALMITOLEIC-ACID 2 Fruit 10.0 165.0 -0.32 Duke, 1992 *
PANTOTHENIC-ACID 11 Fruit 1.0 61.0 2.74 Duke, 1992 *
PECTIN 24 Fruit 100.0 31000.0 -0.26 Duke, 1992 *
PECTINESTERASE 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PENTANOLS 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PENTEN-1-OL-3 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PHENOL 26 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PHENOLICS 0 Fruit 27.0 570.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
PHENYL-2-ETHANOL 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PHENYL-ACETALDEHYDE 2 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PHENYLACETONITRILE 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PHENYLALANINE 7 Fruit 72.0 3801.0 0.16 Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHATIDYL-GLYCEROL 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS 4 Fruit 110.0 8400.0 1.57 Duke, 1992 *
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
Toxic 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Tranquilizer 5 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jun-90.
Transdermal 2 Zebovitz, T. C. Ed. 1989. Part VII. Flavor and Fragrance Substances, in Keith L. H. and Walters, D.B., eds. Compendium of Safety Data Sheets for Research and Industrial Chemicals. VCH Publishers, New York. 3560-4253.
Tremorigenic 1 Martindale's 28th
Tremorilytic 1 Martindale's 28th
Trichomonicide 3 Martindale's 29th
Trichomonistat 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Triglycerigenic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Trypanocide 1 Duke, 1992 *
Trypsin-Enhancer 1 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-93.
Tumor-Promoter 1 J. Agri. & Food Chemistry, 36: 1079.
Tumorigenic 2 Jim Duke's personal files.
Tyrosinase-Inhibitor 8 Duke, 1992 *
Tyrosine-Kinase-Inhibitor 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.
Ubiquiot 6 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ulcerogenic 5 Duke, 1992 *
Uricogenic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Uricosuric 3 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Urinary-Acidulant 1 Martindale's 29th
Urine-Acidifier 1 Martindale's 28th