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
POTASSIUM	14	Fruit	1960.0	58500.0	3.59	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
POTASSIUM	14	Seed	9840.0	21070.0	0.75	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Sprout Seedling	1870.0	20108.0	1.19	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PROLINE	0	Fruit	680.0	6989.0	0.82	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PROLINE	0	Seed	9160.0	10294.0	-0.20	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PROLINE	0	Sprout Seedling	1690.0	18172.0	1.00	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PROPANE-1-THIOL	0	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.
PROTEIN	0	Fruit	17700.0	224000.0	1.53	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Leaf	36000.0	297000.0	0.85	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
PROTEIN	0	Seed	98000.0	394000.0	1.43	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Sprout Seedling	42000.0	451613.0	1.11	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PUFA	4	Fruit	590.0	6064.0	-0.41	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PUFA	4	Seed	6100.0	6855.0	-0.75	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PUFA	4	Sprout Seedling	2760.0	29677.0	1.41	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PYRROLIDINONCARBONIC-ACID	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
QUERCETAGETIN-3,3',4',5,6-PENTA-O-METHYL-ETHER	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3-GLUCURONIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
QUERCETIN-3-O-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE-7-O-BETA-L-RUTINOSIDE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3-O-BETA-D-SOPHOROSIDE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3-O-BETA-ROBINOSIDE-7-O-ALPHA-L-RHAMNOPYRANOSIDE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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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
Antifibromyalgic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrotic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiflu	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antifuruncular	1	Martindale's 28th
Antigallstone	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigastritic	3	Martindale's 29th
Antigastrotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigingivitic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiglaucomic	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiglossitic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiglycosuric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigonadotrophic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antigonadotropic	1	Jim Duke's personal files.
Antigout	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigranular	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigrey	1	Martindale's 29th
Antihangover	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiheartburn	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihematuric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihemolytic	3	Ohnishi, M., Morishita, H., Iwahashi, H., Toda, S., Shirataki, Y., Kimura, M., and Kido, R. 1993. Inhibitory Effects of Chlorogenic Acids on Linoleic Acid Peroxidation and Haemolysis. Phytochemistry. 36(3): 579-583. 1994.