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Plant 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
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.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Sunscreen 4 Lazarova*, G., Kostova, I., Neychev, H. 1992. Photodynamic damage prevention by some hydroxycoumarins. Fitoterapia 64(2): 134-136, 1993.
Suppository 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Sweetener 5 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Teratologic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Termiticide 1 Duke, 1992 *
Termitifuge 1 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Testosteronigenic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Thymoprotective 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Thyrotropic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Tissue-Thromboplastin-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
TNF-alpha-Inhibitor 3 Duke, 1992 *
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor 2 Santti, R., Makela, S., Strauss, L., Korman, J., Kostian, M. L. 1998. Phytoestrogens: Potential Endocrine Disruptors in Males. Toxicol Ind Health, 14: 223-237.
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor 4 Constantinou, A., Mehta, R., Runyan, C., Rao, K., Vaughan, A., Moon, R. 1995. Flavonoids as DNA Topoisomerase Antagonists and Poisons: Structure-Activity Relationships. J Natural Products, 58: 217-225.
Toxic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Tranquilizer 2 Duke, 1992 *
Transdermal 4 Duke, 1992 *
Tremorigenic 1 Martindale's 28th
Trichomonicide 4 Martindale's 29th
Triglycerigenic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Tumor-Promoter 2 Duke, 1992 *