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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Malus domestica (Rosaceae)

Common Names
Apple
How this plant is used
Food

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
ROSEOSIDE 0 Leaf Winterhalter, P., Guldner, A., Guldner, A., Jakob, U., Schreier, P. 1994. 3-hydroxy-5,6-epoxy-beta-ionyl-beta-d-glucopyranoside from Malus domestica leaves. Nat. Prod. Lett., 4(1): 57-60.
RUBIDIUM 0 Fruit 0.3 10.0 -0.68 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
RUTIN 87 Fruit *
RUTIN 87 Fruit Epidermis *
RUTIN 87 Fruit Juice *
RUTIN 87 Leaf 0.0 8885.0 -0.45 *
RUTIN 87 Pericarp *
SALICYLATES 7 Fruit 0.8 60.0 -0.16 *
SELENIUM 60 Fruit 0.0 -0.39 *
SERINE 1 Fruit 80.0 497.0 -1.11 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
SFA 0 Fruit 580.0 3610.0 -0.30 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
SHIKIMIC-ACID 14 Plant *
SILICON 4 Fruit 0.0 70.0 -0.38 *
SILVER 3 Fruit 0.0 0.1 -0.50 *
SINAPIC-ACID 9 Fruit *
SODIUM 1 Fruit 0.0 133.0 -0.17 *
SORBITOL 11 Leaf *
SPERMIDINE 1 Bud Wang, S. Y., Faust, M. 1994. Changes in Polyamine Content During Dormancy in Flower Buds of 'Anna' Apple. J. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci., 119(1): 70-73.
SPERMINE 1 Bud Wang, S. Y., Faust, M. 1994. Changes in Polyamine Content During Dormancy in Flower Buds of 'Anna' Apple. J. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci., 119(1): 70-73.
STEARIC-ACID 8 Fruit 70.0 435.0 -0.25 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Convulsant 1 *
Copper-Antagonist 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Copper-Chelator 2 *
Corrosive 1 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Cosmetic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Counterirritant 1 Merck 11th Edition
COX-1-Inhibitor 4 *
COX-2-Inhibitor 10 *
Cyanogenic 1 Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
Cyclooxygenase-Activator 3 Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor 8 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A1-Inhibitor 1 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A2-Inhibitor 1 *
Cytoprotective 2 Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Cytotoxic 11 Planta Medica, 57: A113, 1991.
Deiodinase-Inhibitor 3 Jim Duke's personal files.
Deliriant 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Demulcent 2 *
Deodorant 3 Merck 11th Edition
Depressant 2 Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.