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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
3-HYDROXYPHLORIDZIN 0 Fruit Juice *
3-PENTANOL 0 Plant *
4-HYDROXYMETHYLPROLINE 0 Plant *
4-P-COUMAROYLQUINIC-ACID 0 Fruit Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
5,6-EPOXY-10'-APO-5,6-DIHYDRO-BETA-CAROTENE-3,10'-DIOL 0 Plant 20000.0 *
6-METHYL-HEPTEN-5-EN-2-ONE 0 Fruit *
7-HEXANOIC-ACID 0 Plant *
ABSCISIC-ACID 0 Fruit *
ABSCISIC-ACID 0 Fruit Juice *
ACETALDEHYDE 6 Fruit *
ACETALDEHYDE 6 Fruit Juice Miyake, T., Shibamoto, T. 1993. Quantitative Analysis of Acetaldehyde in Foods and Beverages. J. Agr. Food Chem, 41(11): 1968-1970.
ACETALDEHYDE 6 Plant *
ACETIC-ACID 16 Plant *
ACETIC-ACID-AMYL-ESTER 0 Plant *
ACETONE 3 Plant *
ADENINE 11 Root *
ALANINE 3 Fruit 70.0 435.0 -1.29 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ALPHA-ALANINE 0 Fruit *
ALPHA-AMINO-BUTYRIC-ACID 0 Plant *
ALPHA-FARNESENE 0 Fruit Epidermis Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antibacterial 40 *
Antiberiberi 1 *
Antibiotic 2 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
AntiBPH 1 *
Antibronchitic 1 Dorsch, W., Wagner, H. New Antiasthmatic Drugs from Traditional Medicine? Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol 94: 262-265, 1991.
Anticalculic 1 *
Anticancer 11 *
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 *
Anticancer (Colon) 4 *
Anticancer (Esophagus)? 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticancer (Forestomach) 2 *
Anticancer (Liver) 3 *
Anticancer (Lung) 2 *
Anticancer (Pancreas) 1 *
Anticancer (Skin) 2 *
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).