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
SFA	0	Root	500.0	2445.0	-0.19	Duke, 1992 *
SILICON	4	Root	2.0	50.0	-0.11	Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM	1	Root	100.0	575.0	-0.25	Duke, 1992 *
SPHONDIN	1	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID	8	Root	140.0	685.0	0.76	Duke, 1992 *
SUBERIN	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SULFUR	14	Root	270.0	11050.0	2.46	Duke, 1992 *
TERPINOLENE	9	Root Essent. Oil	253000.0	666000.0	1.41	Duke, 1992 *
THIAMIN	31	Root	0.8	11.4	0.42	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-BETA-OCIMENE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRIPETROSELINENE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
UMBELLIFERONE	22	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VIT-B-6	0	Root	0.9	4.4	-1.53	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Root	724000.0	810000.0	0.27	Duke, 1992 *
XANTHOTOXIN	43	Leaf	not available	800.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
XANTHOTOXIN	43	Root	26.0	1000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
XANTHOTOXOL	5	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Root	5.0	70.0	2.01	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.