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Common Names
Guarana
How this plant is used
Food
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ADENINE | 11 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980. |
| ASH | 0 | Seed | not available | 14200.0 | -1.01 | Abstract (See species file) |
| CAFFEINE | 62 | Plant | not available | 25000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAFFEINE | 62 | Seed | 9100.0 | 76000.0 | 2.16 | Duke, 1992 * |
| CATECHOL | 22 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CATECHUTANNIC-ACID | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
| CHOLINE | 20 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
| D-CATECHIN | 4 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980. |
| FAT | 0 | Seed | not available | 30000.0 | -1.24 | Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980. |
| GUANINE | 1 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980. |
| GUARANINE | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
| HYPOXANTHINE | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
| MUCILAGE | 3 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses |
| PROTEIN | 0 | Seed | not available | 98600.0 | -1.20 | Abstract (See species file) |
| RESIN | 0 | Seed | not available | 70000.0 | -0.34 | Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980. |
| SAPONIN | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| SAPONINS | 5 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980. |
| STARCH | 5 | Seed | 50000.0 | 60000.0 | -1.01 | Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980. |
| TANNIN | 35 | Seed | 50000.0 | 120000.0 | 0.50 | Duke, 1992 * |
| THEOBROMINE | 21 | Seed | 200.0 | 400.0 | -0.47 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Antihepatomic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antihepatotoxic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiherpetic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| AntiHIV | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antihomocysteine | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antihypertensive | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antihypotensive | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Antilipolytic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antimanic | 1 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
| Antimutagenic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antinarcotic | 1 | Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989. |
| Antinephritic | 1 | Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990. |
| Antinesidioblastosic | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Antineuralgic | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Antinociceptive | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiobesity | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiophidic | 1 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 363. |
| Antioxidant | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiradicular | 1 | Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990. |
| Antirenitic | 1 | Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990. |