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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Prunus armeniaca (Rosaceae)

Common Names
Apricot
How this plant is used
Food

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
NEO-CHLOROGENIC-ACID 2 Fruit *
NEO-CHLOROGENIC-ACID 2 Seed Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
NIACIN 39 Fruit 6.0 61.0 0.00 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
NIACIN 39 Seed 17.0 -0.77 *
OLEIC-ACID 18 Fruit 170.0 1245.0 -0.47 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
OLEIC-ACID 18 Seed 248000.0 411200.0 2.40 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID 25 Plant *
P-CYMENE 16 Leaf *
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Fruit 240.0 1760.0 -0.34 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PANGAMIC-ACID 1 Seed List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
PANTOTHENIC-ACID 11 Fruit 2.4 17.6 -0.03 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PHENYLALANINE 7 Fruit 520.0 3810.0 0.17 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PHOSPHORUS 4 Fruit 180.0 2982.0 -0.07 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PHOSPHORUS 4 Seed 3000.0 -0.62 *
PHYTOSTEROLS 2 Fruit 180.0 1320.0 0.48 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
POLYPHENOLS 30 Fruit 5000.0 -1.24 *
POTASSIUM 14 Fruit 2824.0 22565.0 0.41 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
POTASSIUM 14 Seed 4180.0 7783.0 -0.42 *
PROANTHOCYANIDINS 34 Fruit Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
PROLINE 0 Fruit 1010.0 7400.0 0.93 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiradicular 14 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
AntiRaynaud's 3 *
Antirenitic 2 Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Antiretardation 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiretinitic Optometry 1 *
Antiretinopathic 2 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antiretinotic 1 *
Antirheumatalgic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antirheumatic 5 Martindale's 29th
Antirheumatitic? 1 Martindale's 29th
Antirhinitic 1 *
Antisalmonella 2 *
Antiscoliotic 1 *
Antiscorbutic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antiscotomic 1 *
Antiseborrheic 2 *
Antiseptic 16 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiserotonin 1 *
Antishingles 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antishock 1 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.