Plant Phaseolus vulgaris (Fabaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Black Bean; Green Bean; Haricot Bean; Garden Bean; String Bean; Dwarf Bean; Field Bean; Flageolet Bean; French Bean; Kidney Bean; Navy Bean; Pop Bean; Popping Bean; Snap Bean; Wax Bean; Haricot Vert; Haricot

How this plant is used

Food

Subspecies

var. vulgaris

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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
PHASEOLOSIDE-D	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
PHENYLALANINE	7	Fruit	670.0	6886.0	1.23	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PHENYLALANINE	7	Seed	11680.0	13127.0	0.19	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PHENYLALANINE	7	Sprout Seedling	2120.0	22796.0	1.38	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PHOSPHORUS	4	Fruit	370.0	13500.0	3.12	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Leaf	750.0	5682.0	0.13	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PHOSPHORUS	4	Seed	2130.0	5880.0	0.14	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Sprout Seedling	370.0	3978.0	-1.12	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PHYLLOQUINONE	5	Fruit	not available	0.4	-0.17	Duke, 1992 *
PHYLLOQUINONE	5	Plant	not available	0.3	-0.28	Booth, S. L., Suttie, J. W. 1998. Dietary intake and adequacy of vitamin K. J. Nutrition, 128(5): 785-788.
PHYLLOQUINONE	5	Seed	not available	0.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTATE	0	Fruit	600.0	12230.0	0.87	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTATE	0	Seed	2220.0	11160.0	-0.16	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTIC-ACID	9	Seed	not available	4800.0	-0.98	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTOHAEMAGGLUTININ	2	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
PHYTOSTEROLS	2	Fruit	140.0	1400.0	0.59	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
PHYTOSTEROLS	2	Seed	760.0	1270.0	-0.30	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
PHYTOSTEROLS	2	Sprout Seedling	not available	1210.0	-0.41	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
PIPECOLIC-ACID	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PIPECOLIC-ACID	2	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.

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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
Antipsychotic	3	Martindale's 29th
Antipurpuric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipyretic	6	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiradicular	8	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
AntiRaynaud's	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiretardation	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiretinopathic	1	Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000. Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antiretinotic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antirheumatic	7	Martindale's 29th
Antirheumatitic?	1	Martindale's 29th
Antirhinitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antirhinoviral	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antisalmonella	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antischizophrenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiscoliotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiscorbutic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiscotomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiseborrheic	3	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiseptic	12	Martindale's 28th
Antiserotonin	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.