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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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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
SFA 0 Fruit 270.0 1980.0 -0.34 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
SODIUM 1 Fruit 10.0 88.0 -0.18 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
SODIUM 1 Seed 18.0 19.0 -0.69 Suziki, A., Morimoto, I., and Okitzu, T., Elution of Metals from Crude Drugs, Shoykugaku Zasshi 36(3):190-195.
SORBITOL 11 Plant *
SQUALENE 10 Seed 200.0 -0.10 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
STEARIC-ACID 8 Fruit 30.0 220.0 -0.26 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
SUCCINIC-ACID 7 Fruit *
SUCROSE 14 Fruit 14000.0 54000.0 -0.36 *
TANNIN 35 Fruit 600.0 1000.0 -0.90 *
TARTARIC-ACID 6 Fruit *
TERPINOLENE 9 Essential Oil *
THIAMIN 31 Fruit 0.3 2.5 -0.36 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
THIAMIN 31 Seed 1.5 -1.21 *
THREONINE 4 Fruit 470.0 3445.0 0.18 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
TRANS-2-HEXENAL 4 Essential Oil *
TRANS-EPOXYDIHYDROLINALOL 0 Fruit *
TRANS-EPOXYDIHYDROLINALOOL 0 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
TRYPTOPHAN 29 Fruit 150.0 1100.0 0.35 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
TYROSINE 8 Fruit 290.0 2125.0 -0.12 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
VALINE 3 Fruit 470.0 3445.0 -0.21 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Cancer-Preventive 35 Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Candidicide 3 Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Candidistat 2 *
Capillarifortificant 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Capillarigenic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Capillariprotective 3 Merck 11th Edition
Carcinogenic 7 *
Cardioprotective 9 *
Cardiotonic 1 *
Cardiotoxic 1 *
Carminative 1 *
Caspase-8-Inducer 1 *
Catabolic 2 *
Cataractagenic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Cathartic 1 *
Chelator 2 *
Chemopreventive 9 *
Cholagogue 2 Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Choleretic 9 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.
Cholesterolytic 1 *