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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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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
SILVER 3 Fruit 0.0 0.3 0.11 *
SILVER 3 Seed 0.0 0.1 1.68 *
SODIUM 1 Fruit 5.4 707.0 -0.12 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
SODIUM 1 Seed 0.9 112.0 -0.54 *
STEARIC-ACID 8 Fruit 40.0 411.0 -0.25 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
STEARIC-ACID 8 Seed 220.0 247.0 -0.56 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
STEARIC-ACID 8 Sprout Seedling 90.0 968.0 0.89 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
STIGMASTEROL 12 Seed 310.0 350.0 -0.09 *
STRONTIUM 0 Fruit 2.0 105.0 0.65 *
STRONTIUM 0 Seed 0.7 34.0 0.28 *
SUCCINIC-ACID 7 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
SULFUR 14 Fruit 54.0 875.0 -0.38 *
SULFUR 14 Seed 54.0 137.0 -1.36 *
THIAMIN 31 Fruit 0.5 8.8 0.44 *
THIAMIN 31 Leaf 1.8 13.6 1.10 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
THIAMIN 31 Seed 3.7 10.0 0.81 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
THIAMIN 31 Sprout Seedling 3.7 40.0 1.90 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
THREONINE 4 Fruit 790.0 8119.0 2.12 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
THREONINE 4 Seed 9090.0 10216.0 0.46 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
THREONINE 4 Sprout Seedling 1760.0 18925.0 1.37 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
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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 *