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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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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
QUERCETIN-3-O-METHYL-ETHER 6 Shoot *
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Fruit 1.0 12.0 1.50 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Leaf 0.6 4.5 -0.16 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Seed 1.2 3.0 -0.20 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Sprout Seedling 2.5 27.0 1.65 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
RUBIDIUM 0 Fruit 0.5 7.0 -0.91 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
RUTIN 87 Shoot *
SALICYLATES 7 Fruit 1.1 10.0 -0.31 *
SALICYLATES 7 Seed 0.1 -0.34 *
SAPONINS 5 Seed 2000.0 21000.0 -0.21 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
SELENIUM 60 Fruit 0.0 0.0 -0.38 *
SELENIUM 60 Seed 0.0 0.0 -0.26 *
SERINE 1 Fruit 990.0 10175.0 2.31 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
SERINE 1 Seed 11750.0 13205.0 0.50 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
SERINE 1 Sprout Seedling 2240.0 24086.0 1.18 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
SFA 0 Fruit 260.0 2672.0 -0.32 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
SFA 0 Seed 3660.0 4113.0 -0.54 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
SFA 0 Sprout Seedling 720.0 7742.0 1.22 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
SILICIC-ACID 1 Fruit Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
SILICON 4 Fruit 80.0 1200.0 3.29 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Insectiphile 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Insulin-Sparing 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Insulinase-Inhibitor 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 157.
Insulinogenic 3 *
Insulinotonic 1 J. Agri. & Food Chemistry, 36: 1079.
Interferon-Synergist 1 *
Interferonogenic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor 1 *
Iodothyronine-Deiodinase-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Irritant 4 Merck 11th Edition
Juvabional 1 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Keratolytic 1 Martindale's 29th
Larvicide 1 *
Larvistat 1 Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Laxative 5 *
Lectin 1 Martindale's 29th
Leptingenic 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
Leukotriene-Inhibitor 1 *
Lipase-Inhibitor 2 *
Lipotropic 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.