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Common Names
Indian Fig; Prickly Pear; Nopal; Nopalito
How this plant is used
Food
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MALIC-ACID | 15 | Fruit | 180.0 | 1700.0 | -0.84 | Duke, 1992 * |
| MALIC-ACID | 15 | Leaf | not available | 950.0 | -1.18 | Duke, 1992 * |
| MALIC-ACID | 15 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| MALONIC-ACID | 1 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| MALONIC-ACID | 1 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| MESCALINE | 10 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| METHIONINE | 15 | Bud | not available | 1890.0 | not available | Laferriere, J.E., 1988, Nutricomp Program, Nutricomp Database; reviewed in J. Ethnobiology 9(1):27-29. |
| METHIONINE | 15 | Seed | not available | 4830.0 | 0.13 | Laferriere, J.E., 1988, Nutricomp Program, Nutricomp Database; reviewed in J. Ethnobiology 9(1):27-29. |
| MUCILAGE | 3 | Stem | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| MYRISTIC-ACID | 6 | Flower | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| N-METHYL-TYRAMINE | 1 | Shoot | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| NEOBETANIN | 0 | Flower | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| NEOBETANIN | 0 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| NEOBETANIN | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991. |
| NIACIN | 39 | Bud | not available | 4.6 | -1.00 | Laferriere, J.E., 1988, Nutricomp Program, Nutricomp Database; reviewed in J. Ethnobiology 9(1):27-29. |
| NIACIN | 39 | Fruit | 3.0 | 27.0 | -0.45 | Duke, 1992 * |
| OLEIC-ACID | 18 | Flower | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| OLEIC-ACID | 18 | Seed | 4750.0 | 16015.0 | -0.85 | Duke, 1992 * |
| OLEIC-ACID | 18 | Seed Oil | not available | 88000.0 | -1.22 | Duke, 1992 * |
| OPUNTIAXANTHIN | 0 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Diuretic | 9 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Dye | 3 | Merck 11th Edition |
| Emetic | 2 | Martindale's 29th |
| Ergogenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Essential | 7 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Estrogenic | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Estrogenic? | 1 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189. |
| Fatal | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Febrifuge | 1 | Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp. |
| Fibrinolytic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Fistula-Preventive | 1 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
| Flatugenic | 1 | Singh, J., Gupta, K., and Arora, S.K. 1993. Changes in the anti-nutritional factors of developing seeds and pod walls of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum L.). Plant Foods for Human Nutrition. 46: 77-84, 1994. |
| FLavor | 7 | Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry |
| Fungicide | 2 | Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp. |
| Gastroprotective | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Gastrostimulant | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
| Glutathionergic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Glutathionigenic | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Gonadotrophic | 1 | Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990. |
| Hallucinogen | 1 | Merck 11th Edition |