Plant Pisum sativum (Fabaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Pea

How this plant is used

Food

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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
TRYPTOPHAN	29	Seed	370.0	1750.0	-0.54	Duke, 1992 *
TYRAMINE	11	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TYRAMINE	11	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TYROSINE	8	Fruit	990.0	9792.0	3.06	Duke, 1992 *
TYROSINE	8	Seed	1130.0	5345.0	-0.56	Duke, 1992 *
VALINE	3	Fruit	2730.0	27003.0	4.65	Duke, 1992 *
VALINE	3	Seed	2350.0	11116.0	-0.11	Duke, 1992 *
VALINE	3	Shoot	not available	33.0	-1.34	Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIC-ACID	24	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIC-ACID	24	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VERBASCOSE	1	Seed	not available	31000.0	0.21	Duke, 1992 *
VICILIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VIT-B-6	0	Fruit	1.6	16.0	1.31	Duke, 1992 *
VIT-B-6	0	Seed	1.6	8.6	1.55	Duke, 1992 *
VIT-B12	0	Seed	not available	0.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Fruit	880000.0	897750.0	0.55	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Seed	760000.0	793670.0	2.17	Duke, 1992 *
XANTHOPHYLL	3	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
XENOGNOSIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Seed	11.0	60.0	0.42	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
Antiaphthic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiarabiflavinotic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiarrhythmic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarteriosclerotic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarthritic	13	Duke, 1992 *
Antiasthmatic	5	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiataxic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiatherogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatheromic	1	Cerda, J.J. Pectin in Health and Disease. HortScience, 25(12): 1485, 1990.
Antiatherosclerotic	11	Duke, 1992 *
Antiautistic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antibackache	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antibacterial	20	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiberiberi	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiBPH	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibronchitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticalculic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer	7	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast)	4	Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix)	2	Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.