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
PARAGALACTAN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PECTIN	24	Seed	not available	25000.0	-0.27	Duke, 1992 *
PELARGONIDIN	7	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PETUNIDIN	3	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHENYLALANINE	7	Fruit	900.0	8902.0	1.93	Duke, 1992 *
PHENYLALANINE	7	Seed	2000.0	9460.0	-0.25	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Fruit	530.0	5240.0	0.61	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Plant	1800.0	6400.0	1.35	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Seed	1038.0	6250.0	0.24	Duke, 1992 *
PHYLLOQUINONE	5	Plant	not available	0.2	-0.53	Booth, S. L., Suttie, J. W. 1998. Dietary intake and adequacy of vitamin K. J. Nutrition, 128(5): 785-788.
PHYTIC-ACID	9	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTOPRECIPITIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PINITOL	5	Seed	not available	500.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
PIPECOLINIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PISATIN	5	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Fruit	1701.0	22737.0	0.43	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Plant	12800.0	25200.0	0.24	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Seed	2273.0	15830.0	0.29	Duke, 1992 *
PROLINE	0	Fruit	630.0	6231.0	0.61	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
Radioprotective	1	Martindale's 28th
Refrigerant	1	Martindale's 28th
Renotoxic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Retinoprotectant Optometry	1	Duke, 1992 *
Roborant	1	Merck 11th Edition
Scabicide	1	Martindale's 29th
Schizophrenigenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Secretogogue	3	Duke, 1992 *
Sedative	5	Duke, 1992 *
Serotoninergic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Sialogogue	1	Martindale's 29th
Soap	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Spasmogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Spermicide	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Spermigenic	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Sunscreen	4	Jim Duke's personal files.
Suppository	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Suppurative	1	Duke, 1992 *
Sweetener	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Sympathomimetic	1	Duke, 1992 *