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
IRON	6	Root	4.0	112.0	-0.28	Duke, 1992 *
ISOBERGAPTEN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOIMPERATORIN	8	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISOPIMPINELLIN	15	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISORHAMNETIN	11	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ISORHAMNETIN-3-GLUCOSIDE-4-RHAMNOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL	75	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KILOCALORIESS	0	Root	650.0	3664.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LEAD	0	Root	0.0	0.1	-0.67	Duke, 1992 *
LIMONENE	60	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Root	410.0	2000.0	-0.42	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Seed	not available	36330.0	-0.61	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Root	230.0	2100.0	-0.25	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Root	2.0	33.0	-0.15	Duke, 1992 *
MERCURY	1	Root	0.0	0.0	-0.50	Duke, 1992 *
MOLYBDENUM	2	Root	0.1	0.5	-0.34	Duke, 1992 *
MUFA	13	Root	1120.0	5470.0	1.30	Duke, 1992 *
MYRCENE	22	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRISTIC-ACID	6	Root	30.0	145.0	-0.55	Duke, 1992 *
MYRISTICIN	31	Root Essent. Oil	183000.0	662000.0	1.00	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
Uterotrophic	1	Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 227.1999.
Varroacide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vasodilator	11	Duke, 1992 *
Vasopressor	1	Duke, 1992 *
VEGF-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vulnerary	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor	3	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).