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Plant Pisum sativum (Fabaceae)

Common Names
Pea
How this plant is used
Food
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
NICOTINAMIDE 2 Sprout Seedling not available 0.7 not available Duke, 1992 *
NICOTINIC-ACID 11 Seed not available 18.0 -1.00 Duke, 1992 *
NICOTINIC-ACID 11 Sprout Seedling not available 18.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
NITROGEN 0 Seed 11000.0 50000.0 2.15 Duke, 1992 *
O-ACETYL-HOMOSERINE 0 Shoot not available 433.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
O-COUMARIC-ACID 4 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
OBTUSTYRENE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID 18 Fruit 210.0 2077.0 -0.46 Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID 18 Seed 350.0 1656.0 -0.97 Duke, 1992 *
ONONITOL 0 Root not available 3.2 -1.00 Duke, 1992 *
OXALIC-ACID 9 Fruit not available 60.0 -0.30 Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID 25 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
P-HYDROXY-BENZOIC-ACID 13 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
P-HYDROXY-BENZOIC-ACID 13 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PAEONIDIN 0 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Fruit 330.0 3264.0 -0.31 Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Seed 640.0 3027.0 -0.64 Duke, 1992 *
PALMITOLEIC-ACID 2 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PANTOTHENIC-ACID 11 Fruit 7.5 74.0 3.57 Duke, 1992 *
PANTOTHENIC-ACID 11 Seed 1.0 5.0 -1.23 Duke, 1992 *
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
Dopaminergic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Dye 2 Merck 11th Edition
Emetic 2 Martindale's 29th
Emmenagogue 1 Wealth of India.
Emollient 1 Martindale's 29th
Encephalopathic 1 Martindale's 29th
Energizer 1 Duke, 1992 *
Epidermal-Stimulant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Ergogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Erythrocytogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Essential 8 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Estrogen-Agonist 2 Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 139.1999.
Estrogenic 7 Duke, 1992 *
Ethanolytic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Expectorant 2 Duke, 1992 *
Fatal 1 Martindale's 29th
Febrifuge 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fibrinolytic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Fistula-Preventive 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Flatugenic 3 Singh, J., Gupta, K., and Arora, S.K. 1993. Changes in the anti-nutritional factors of developing seeds and pod walls of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum L.). Plant Foods for Human Nutrition. 46: 77-84, 1994.