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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Phaseolus vulgaris (Fabaceae)

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.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
PHASEOLOSIDE-D 0 Plant 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 *
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 *
PHOSPHORUS 4 Sprout Seedling 370.0 3978.0 -1.12 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PHYLLOQUINONE 5 Fruit 0.4 -0.17 *
PHYLLOQUINONE 5 Plant 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 0.0 -1.00 *
PHYTATE 0 Fruit 600.0 12230.0 0.87 *
PHYTATE 0 Seed 2220.0 11160.0 -0.16 *
PHYTIC-ACID 9 Seed 4800.0 -0.98 *
PHYTOHAEMAGGLUTININ 2 Seed 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 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 *
PIPECOLIC-ACID 2 Seed 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.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Energizer 1 *
Epidermal-Stimulant 1 *
Ergogenic 1 *
Erythrocytogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Essential 8 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Estrogen-Agonist 2 Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 139.1999.
Estrogenic 10 *
Estrogenic? 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Expectorant 1 *
Fatal 1 Martindale's 29th
Febrifuge 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fibrinolytic 1 *
Fistula-Preventive 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Flatulent 1 *
FLavor 9 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide 24 *
Fungistat 1 *
Gastroprotective 1 *
Glutathionigenic 1 Martindale's 29th
Goitrogenic 1 *