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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Petroselinum crispum (Apiaceae)

Common Names
Parsley
How this plant is used
Food

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
PETROSELINIC-ACID 0 Seed Oil *
PHENETHYL-ALCOHOL 6 Plant Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
PHENYALANINE-AMMONIA-LYASE 0 Tissue Culture *
PHENYL-ACETALDEHYDE 2 Leaf *
PHENYLALANINE-AMMONIA-LYASE 0 Tissue Culture *
PHOSPHORUS 4 Plant 324.0 4100.0 0.25 *
PHOSPHORUS 4 Shoot *
PHYLLOQUINONE 5 Leaf 5.5 0.75 *
PHYTOSTEROLS 2 Leaf 50.0 450.0 -0.68 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
POTASSIUM 14 Plant 4425.0 53833.0 2.23 *
PROTEIN 0 Plant 20000.0 254096.0 0.66 *
PROTEIN 0 Seed 191000.0 -0.38 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PROTOCATECHUIC-ACID 43 Stem *
PSORALEN 31 Fruit 1.0 10.0 -0.46 *
PSORALEN 31 Leaf 2.5 33.0 -0.70 *
PSORALEN 31 Root *
PSORALEN 31 Tissue Culture *
QUERCETIN 176 Leaf *
QUERCETIN 176 Plant Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
QUERCETIN 176 Tissue Culture *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Sweetener 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Synergist 1 Merck 11th Edition
Tachycardic 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.
Taenicide 1 Martindale's 28th
Teratogenic 2 Borchard, R. E., Barnes, C. D., and Eltherton, L. G. 1991. Drug Dosage in Laboratory Animals: A Handbook. (3rd Ed.) The Telford Press, Inc., P. O. Box 287, Caldwell NJ 07006.
Teratologic 2 *
Termiticide 4 *
Termitifuge 1 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Testosterone-Inducer 1 *
Testosteronigenic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Thymoprotective 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
TNF-alpha-Inhibitor 4 *
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor 4 Santti, R., Makela, S., Strauss, L., Korman, J., Kostian, M. L. 1998. Phytoestrogens: Potential Endocrine Disruptors in Males. Toxicol Ind Health, 14: 223-237.
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor 5 Constantinou, A., Mehta, R., Runyan, C., Rao, K., Vaughan, A., Moon, R. 1995. Flavonoids as DNA Topoisomerase Antagonists and Poisons: Structure-Activity Relationships. J Natural Products, 58: 217-225.
Toxic 1 Martindale's 28th
Tracheorelaxant 1 *
Tranquilizer 3 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jun-90.
Transdermal 4 *
Tremorilytic 1 Martindale's 28th
Trichomonicide 5 Martindale's 29th