Plant Prunus armeniaca (Rosaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Apricot

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
NEO-CHLOROGENIC-ACID	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEO-CHLOROGENIC-ACID	2	Seed	not available	not available	not available	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	not available	17.0	-0.77	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE	16	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Fruit	240.0	1760.0	-0.34	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PANGAMIC-ACID	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	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	not available	3000.0	-0.62	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTOSTEROLS	2	Fruit	180.0	1320.0	0.48	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
POLYPHENOLS	30	Fruit	not available	5000.0	-1.24	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
PROANTHOCYANIDINS	34	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	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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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Metastatic	1	Science News, 146: 421.
MMP-9-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Monoamine-Precursor	3	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Mosquitofuge	2	Duke, 1992 *
Motor-Depressant	2	Buchbauer et al, e.g.Buchbauer et al,1993.Therapeutic properties of essential oils and fragrances. Chap.12 in Teranishi,R, Buttery,R.G and Sugisawa,H. Eds. Bioactive Volatile Compounds from Plants. ACS Symposium Series 525. Amer. Chem. Soc., Washington DC
Mucogenic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Mucolytic	2	Martindale's 29th
Mutagenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Mycobactericide	3	Duke, 1992 *
Myoprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Myorelaxant	4	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
NADH-Oxidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Natriuretic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Nematicide	6	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Neoplastic	1	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
NEP-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Neuroexcitant	1	Martindale's 28th
Neuroinhibitor	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Neuroprotective	3	Duke, 1992 *
Neurotoxic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.