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
PROTEIN	0	Fruit	10000.0	127000.0	0.23	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PROTEIN	0	Seed	not available	315000.0	0.72	Duke, 1992 *
PUFA	4	Fruit	770.0	5640.0	-0.44	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
QUERCETIN	176	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN	176	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCITIN	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCITIN-3-DIGLUCOSIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCITIN-3-GALACTOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCITIN-3-GLUCOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCITIN-3-RHAMNOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCITIN-3-RUTINOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCITRIN	44	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUINIC-ACID	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Fruit	0.4	4.4	-0.13	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Seed	not available	5.3	0.68	Duke, 1992 *
RUBIXANTHIN	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
RUTIN	87	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN	87	Leaf	not available	17700.0	0.09	Duke, 1992 *
SALICYLATES	7	Fruit	10.0	260.0	0.41	Duke, 1992 *
SERINE	1	Fruit	830.0	6080.0	0.86	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)

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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
Protisticide	4	Martindale's 29th
Psychotropic	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.
PTK-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Purgative	1	Martindale's 28th
Quinone-Reductase-Inducer	3	Duke, 1992 *
Radioprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Refrigerant	1	Martindale's 28th
Respirastimulant	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Retinoprotectant Optometry	1	Duke, 1992 *
Roborant	1	Merck 11th Edition
Rodenticide	1	Martindale's 29th
Schizophrenigenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Sedative	10	Wagner & Wolff, eds. 1977. New Natural Products (RS164. I56. 176)
Sequestrant	1	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
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	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Spasmolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Spermicide	2	Martindale's 28th
Spermigenic	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.