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Plant Malus domestica (Rosaceae)

Common Names
Apple
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
ISOPROPYL-BUTYRATE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ISOQUERCETIN 3 Fruit Juice not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ISOQUERCITRIN 22 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ISOQUERCITRIN 22 Fruit Juice not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ISOQUERCITRIN 22 Pericarp not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ISOVALERALDEHYDE 1 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
JASMONIC-ACID 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL 75 Fruit not available 2.0 -0.58 Duke, 1992 *
KILOCALORIES 0 Fruit not available 3419.0 -0.37 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
L-ARGININE 1 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
L-ARGININE 1 Stem not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
L-EPICATECHIN 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
L-MALIC-ACID 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
L-QUINIC-ACID 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LACTIC-ACID 8 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LAURIC-ACID 7 Fruit 10.0 63.0 -0.44 Duke, 1992 *
LEAD 0 Fruit 0.0 64.0 3.29 Duke, 1992 *
LECITHIN 20 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LEUCINE 2 Fruit 120.0 746.0 -0.93 Duke, 1992 *
LINOLENIC-ACID 0 Fruit 870.0 5411.0 -0.19 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
Antibacterial 40 Duke, 1992 *
Antiberiberi 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antibiotic 2 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
AntiBPH 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antibronchitic 1 Dorsch, W., Wagner, H. New Antiasthmatic Drugs from Traditional Medicine? Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol 94: 262-265, 1991.
Anticalculic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer 11 Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast) 2 Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Colon) 4 Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Esophagus)? 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticancer (Forestomach) 2 Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Liver) 3 Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung) 2 Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Pancreas) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Skin) 2 Duke, 1992 *
Anticanker 3 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticapillary-Fragility 3 Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Anticarcinogenic 4 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic 4 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).