Plant Pastinaca sativa (Apiaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Parsnip

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
N-HEPTACOSANE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-HEXACOSANE	2	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-NONACOSANE	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-NONADECANE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-OCTACOSANE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-OCTADECANE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-OCTYL-ALCOHOL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-TRIACONTANE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Root	2.0	34.0	-0.47	Duke, 1992 *
NICKEL	3	Root	0.0	1.6	-0.27	Duke, 1992 *
NITROGEN	0	Root	3000.0	33160.0	0.64	Duke, 1992 *
OCTYL-BUTYRATE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCTYL-PROPIONATE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	1020.0	158000.0	0.32	Duke, 1992 *
OXALIC-ACID	9	Root	not available	205.0	-0.53	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE	16	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Root	300.0	1730.0	-0.32	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed	1730.0	2880.0	-0.64	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITOLEIC-ACID	2	Root	30.0	145.0	-0.66	Duke, 1992 *
PANTOTHENIC-ACID	11	Root	6.0	29.0	1.66	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
Circulotonic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Clastogenic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
CNS-Depressant	3	Duke, 1992 *
CNS-Paralytic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Cold-preventive	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Collagenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Colorant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Comedogenic	1	Martindale's 29th
Comedolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
COMT-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Contraceptive	2	Martindale's 28th
Copper-Antagonist	1	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
Copper-Chelator	2	Duke, 1992 *
Cosmetic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
COX-1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
COX-2-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Cytochrome-P450-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Cytoprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *