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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Mentha x piperita (Lamiaceae)

Common Names
Peppermint
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe
Subspecies
nothosubsp. piperita
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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
CYSTINE 2 Leaf 410.0 1920.0 -0.84 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
DELTA-DODECALACTONE 1 Leaf 0.0 0.0 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
DELTA-JASMINLACTONE 0 Leaf 0.1 0.5 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
DIHYDRO-LIMONENE-10-OL 0 Essential Oil *
DIHYDRO-TERPINEOL-ACETATE 0 Leaf 0.0 0.0 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
DIHYDROCARVONE 0 Leaf *
DIMETHYL-SULFOXIDE 1 Essential Oil *
DIOSPHENOL 4 Leaf 0.0 0.1 -1.41 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
DIPENTENE 7 Essential Oil *
EO 0 Leaf 2980.0 30000.0 1.62 *
EO 0 Plant 1000.0 40000.0 2.30 *
ERIODICTYOL-7-O-RUTINOSIDE 0 Leaf 860.0 *
EUGENOL 76 Essential Oil *
EUPATORIN 8 Essential Oil *
FAT 0 Leaf 8046.0 54000.0 -0.05 *
FENCHENE 0 Essential Oil *
FIBER 15 Leaf 80000.0 370000.0 2.58 *
FIBER(CRUDE) 0 Leaf 114000.0 -0.35 *
FIBER(DIETARY) 0 Leaf 323000.0 -0.62 *
FOLATE 0 Leaf 1.0 5.0 -0.51 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antistomatitic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antistreptococcic 5 *
Antistress 4 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antistroke 3 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
Antisunburn 3 *
Antisyndrome-X 6 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
Antitartar 1 *
Antithiamin 1 Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, 69.
Antithrombogenic 1 *
Antithromboxane 1 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jul-87.
Antithyreotropic 1 *
Antithyroid 5 Jim Duke's personal files.
Antitic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antitinnitic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
AntiTNF 2 *
Antitoxoplasmotic 1 Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill
Livinston, Edinburgh.
Antitrichinosic 1 Madaus, G. 1976. Lehrbuch der Biologischen Hilfmittel. Vol,. 1-3. 2862 pp. (+ 144 p. index). Georg Olms Verlag, Hildescheim. Reprint of 1938 Madaus.
Antitriglyceride 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antitrypanosomic 1 Planta Medica, 57: A44, 1991.
Antitubercular 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.