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
KAEMPFEROL-3-O-BETA-ROBINOSIDE-7-O-ALPHA-L-RHAMNOPYRANOSIDE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL-3-O-BETA-RUTINOSIDE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL-3-O-METHYL-ETHER	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KIEVITONE	3	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KIEVITONE	3	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KILOCALORIES	0	Fruit	280.0	3830.0	0.26	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
KILOCALORIES	0	Leaf	360.0	2730.0	-0.46	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
KILOCALORIES	0	Seed	3230.0	3832.0	-0.80	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
KILOCALORIES	0	Sprout Seedling	290.0	3118.0	-0.72	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
LEAD	0	Fruit	0.0	10.5	0.13	Duke, 1992 *
LEAD	0	Seed	0.7	1.0	-0.42	Duke, 1992 *
LEUCINE	2	Fruit	1120.0	11511.0	1.36	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
LEUCINE	2	Seed	17250.0	19386.0	0.22	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
LEUCINE	2	Sprout Seedling	3020.0	32473.0	1.39	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
LICOISOFLAVONE-A	4	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LIGNIN	13	Seed	4100.0	10800.0	-0.58	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Fruit	230.0	2364.0	-0.32	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Seed	3320.0	3731.0	-0.89	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Sprout Seedling	1070.0	11505.0	1.38	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
LITHIUM	11	Fruit	0.2	2.7	2.36	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.