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

Common Names

Apricot

How this plant is used

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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
2-METHYL-BUTYRIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3,4-DIHYDROXYBENZOIC-ACID	3	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ACETIC-ACID	16	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALANINE	3	Fruit	680.0	4980.0	0.50	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ALPHA-CRYPTOXANTHIN	2	Fruit	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.
ALPHA-ESTRADIOL	0	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.
ALPHA-TERPINEOL	23	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AMYGDALIN	8	Seed	not available	80000.0	1.27	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
AMYLASE	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARGININE	14	Fruit	450.0	3300.0	-0.27	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Fruit	100.0	745.0	-0.24	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ASH	0	Fruit	7000.0	105000.0	1.25	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ASH	0	Seed	10000.0	30000.0	-0.54	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
ASPARTIC-ACID	3	Fruit	3140.0	23000.0	1.69	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
BENZYL-ALCOHOL	9	Fruit	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.
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Fruit	13.0	189.0	0.21	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Seed	not available	0.0	-0.43	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
BETA-GLUCOSIDASE	0	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.
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Fruit	160.0	1300.0	0.91	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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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
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor	6	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).