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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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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
BETA-CAROTENE-5,6-EPOXIDE 0 Fruit Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Fruit 110.0 660.0 0.07 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Heart Wood *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Seed Fathy, M. M., Abd El Megid, R. M. 1995. A Comparative Study of the Lipid Contents and the Antimicrobial Activity of Certain Rosaceous Seeds. Zagazig J Pharm Sci, 4(2): 121-127.
BIOTIN 4 Plant *
BORON 4 Fruit 1.0 110.0 1.41 *
BROMINE 0 Fruit 1.0 -0.43 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
BUTAN-2-ONE 0 Fruit *
BUTANAL 0 Fruit *
BUTANOL 0 Plant *
BUTYL-ACETATE 0 Fruit *
BUTYL-ACETATE 0 Plant *
BUTYL-BUTYRATE 0 Plant *
BUTYL-CAPROATE 0 Plant *
BUTYL-PROPIONATE 0 Plant *
BUTYL-VALERIANATE 0 Plant *
CADMIUM 3 Fruit 0.0 0.0 -0.57 *
CAFFEETANNIN 0 Plant *
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Fruit 85.0 1270.0 -0.10 *
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Fruit Juice *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Immunomodulator 10 *
Immunostimulant 14 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Immunosuppressant 3 *
Inflammatory 1 *
iNOS-Inhibitor 4 *
Inotropic 4 *
Insecticide 3 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Insectifuge 10 Tunon, H., Thorsell, W., and Bohlin, L. 1993. Mosquito Repelling Activity of Compounds Occurring in Achillea millefolium L. (Asteraceae). Economic Botany 48(2): 111-120, 1994.
Insectiphile 4 Merck 11th Edition
Insulin-Sparing 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Insulinase-Inhibitor 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 157.
Insulinogenic 6 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.
Insulinotonic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 157.
Interferon-Synergist 1 *
Interferonogenic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Interleukin-1-alpha-Inhibitor 1 *
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor 1 *
Interleukin-6-mRNA-Inhibitor 1 *
Iodothyronine-Deiodinase-Inhibitor 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Irritant 16 *