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
AUROXANTHIN	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BARIUM	0	Fruit	0.0	60.0	1.78	Duke, 1992 *
BENZALDEHYDE	24	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZYL-ALCOHOL	9	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-ALANINE	2	Fruit	not available	6.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-AMYRIN	9	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Fruit	7.0	113.0	0.07	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSYL-PHASEIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-IONENE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETAINE	14	Root	not available	23.0	-0.37	Duke, 1992 *
BETAINE	14	Shoot	not available	69.0	-0.46	Duke, 1992 *
BIOTIN	4	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BORON	4	Fruit	0.0	96.0	1.13	Duke, 1992 *
BUTANOL-2-ON-3	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUTANOLS	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BUTYROLACTONE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CADMIUM	3	Fruit	0.0	1.7	4.35	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Fruit	not available	6.0	-0.34	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID-4-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	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
Urine-Deodorant	1	Martindale's 29th
Uterorelaxant	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Uterosedative	1	Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990.
Uterotrophic	2	Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 227.1999.
Varroacide	2	Duke, 1992 *
Vasoconstrictor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Vasodilator	15	Duke, 1992 *
Vasopressor	4	Duke, 1992 *
VEGF-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Vermifuge	1	Duke, 1992 *
Verrucolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vertigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vibriocide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vulnerary	7	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor	3	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).