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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
CAMPESTEROL 2 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Fruit 75600.0 747774.0 -0.19 Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Plant 296000.0 506000.0 -1.07 Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Seed 144600.0 684000.0 0.64 Duke, 1992 *
CELLULOSE 1 Seed 74000.0 96000.0 -0.18 Duke, 1992 *
CEPHALIN 1 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CHLORINE 7 Seed 200.0 590.0 0.47 Duke, 1992 *
CHOLESTEROL 1 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CHOLINE 20 Fruit not available 2060.0 -0.18 Duke, 1992 *
CHOLINE 20 Root not available 61.0 -0.41 Duke, 1992 *
CHOLINE 20 Seed 1970.0 2800.0 1.06 Duke, 1992 *
CHOLINE 20 Shoot not available 121.0 -0.61 Duke, 1992 *
CHROMIUM 24 Seed 0.0 0.2 -0.66 Duke, 1992 *
CIS-SINAPIC-ACID 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CITRIC-ACID 23 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
COBALT 2 Plant not available 0.2 -0.47 Duke, 1992 *
COBALT 2 Seed 0.0 0.2 -0.20 Duke, 1992 *
COPPER 12 Seed 2.0 10.0 -0.44 Duke, 1992 *
COUMESTROL 13 Fruit not available 300.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
COUMESTROL 13 Seed not available 0.6 -0.49 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
Flatulent 2 Duke, 1992 *
FLavor 7 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
FPTase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Fungicide 17 Duke, 1992 *
Fungistat 2 Duke, 1992 *
Gastroprotective 3 Duke, 1992 *
Gastrostimulant 1 Martindale's 28th
Glutathionigenic 1 Martindale's 29th
Goitrogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Gonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Hematopoietic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Hemolytic 1 Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Hemopoietic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hemostat 5 Martindale's 29th
Hemostatic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Hepatocarcinogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hepatoprotective 13 Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotonic 2 Fitoterapia No.5-1986.
Hepatotoxic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotropic 2 Duke, 1992 *