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
PASTINACIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PETROSELINDIOLEIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PETROSELINIC-ACID	0	Seed	79580.0	132500.0	-1.75	Duke, 1992 *
PETROSELINOLEIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Root	400.0	7365.0	0.68	Duke, 1992 *
PIMPINELLIN	7	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Root	3300.0	40000.0	1.77	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Root	12000.0	85000.0	-0.38	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Seed	150000.0	155000.0	-0.70	Duke, 1992 *
PSORALEN	31	Root	7.1	10.5	-0.89	Duke, 1992 *
PUFA	4	Root	470.0	2300.0	-1.16	Duke, 1992 *
PYRUVIC-CARBOXYLASE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN	176	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3-RHAMNOGLUCOSIDE	4	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Root	0.5	4.0	-0.02	Duke, 1992 *
RUBIDIUM	0	Root	0.6	10.0	-0.41	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN	87	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SABINENE	5	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SELINIUM	0	Root	0.0	0.0	not available	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
Estrogenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Estrogenic?	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Expectorant	3	Duke, 1992 *
Fatal	1	Martindale's 29th
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).
FLavor	14	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide	14	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.
Fungiphilic	1	J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2283.
Fungistat	2	Duke, 1992 *
Gastroprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Genotoxic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
GST-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hallucinogenic	1	Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
Hematopoietic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Hemolytic	1	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Hemostat	2	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Hemostatic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Hepatomagenic	2	Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.