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
Antialzheimeran?	1	Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Antiamblyopic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antianaphylactic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiandrogenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antianemic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antianginal	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiangiogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antianorectic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antianorexic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antianxiety	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiapertif	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiapoplectic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiappetant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarabiflavinotic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiarrhythmic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarteriosclerotic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarthritic	11	Duke, 1992 *
Antiasthmatic	5	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiatherogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherosclerotic	6	Duke, 1992 *