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
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).