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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
Antiarrhythmic 7 *
Antiarteriosclerotic 3 *
Antiarthritic 15 *
Antiasthmatic 5 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiasthmatic? 1 *
Antiatherogenic 3 *
Antiatherosclerotic 9 *
Antibackache 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antibacterial 14 Recio, M. C., Rios, J. L., and Villar, A., A review of some antimicrobial compounds isolated from medicinal plants reported in the literature 1978-1988, Phytotherapy Research, 3(4), 1989, 117-125.
Antiberiberi 1 *
AntiBPH 1 *
Anticancer 10 *
Anticancer (Breast) 2 Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix) 2 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.
Anticancer (Colon) 1 *
Anticancer (Esophagus)? 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticancer (Forestomach) 1 *
Anticancer (Liver) 2 *
Anticancer (Lung) 2 *
Anticancer (Skin) 1 *