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Plant 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.
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
GLUTAMIC-ACID 8 Sprout Seedling 5120.0 55054.0 1.08 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
GLUTATHIONE 7 Root 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.
GLYCINE 12 Fruit 650.0 6680.0 1.19 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
GLYCINE 12 Seed 8430.0 9474.0 -0.21 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
GLYCINE 12 Sprout Seedling 1440.0 15484.0 1.26 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
HISTIDINE 7 Fruit 340.0 3494.0 1.25 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
HISTIDINE 7 Seed 6010.0 6754.0 0.17 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
HISTIDINE 7 Sprout Seedling 1180.0 12688.0 1.38 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
INOSITOL 8 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.
IRON 6 Fruit 6.0 1050.0 3.64 Duke, 1992 *
IRON 6 Leaf 92.0 697.0 0.85 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
IRON 6 Seed 24.0 147.0 -0.02 Duke, 1992 *
IRON 6 Sprout Seedling 8.0 87.0 -0.70 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ISOLEUCINE 3 Fruit 660.0 6783.0 0.94 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ISOLEUCINE 3 Seed 9540.0 10722.0 0.03 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ISOLEUCINE 3 Sprout Seedling 1860.0 20000.0 1.34 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ISORHAMNETIN-3-O-BETA-D-GALACTOPYRANOSIDE 0 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ISORHAMNETIN-3-O-RUTINOSIDE 0 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL-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.
KAEMPFEROL-3-O-BETA-D-DIGLUCOPYRANOSIDE-7-O-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE 0 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
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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.