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

Common Names

Sour Cherry

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
LACTIC-ACID	8	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LEUCINE	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LEUCOCYANIDIN	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINALOL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Fruit	460.0	3312.0	-0.31	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Seed	127200.0	169600.0	0.54	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Fruit	90.0	648.0	-0.69	Duke, 1992 *
MALEIC-ACID	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MALIC-ACID	15	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Fruit	1.0	8.0	-0.35	Duke, 1992 *
MANNITOL	18	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MESOCYANIN	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-SALICYLATE	21	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRISTIC-ACID	6	Fruit	20.0	144.0	-0.26	Duke, 1992 *
MYRISTIC-ACID	6	Seed	600.0	800.0	-0.29	Duke, 1992 *
NARINGENIN	56	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEO-CHLOROGENIC-ACID	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Fruit	4.0	32.0	-0.38	Duke, 1992 *
O-CRESOL	6	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCTANOIC-ACID	5	Fruit	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
Antinitrosating	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antinitrosic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antinociceptive	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antinyctalopic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiobesity	4	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiobesity?	1	Internat. J. Oriental Med. 16: 4.
Antiophidic	4	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 363.
Antiorchitic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiosteoarthritic	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiosteoporotic	8	Duke, 1992 *
Antiotitic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiototic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antioxidant	40	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.
Antioxidant Synergist	4	Merck 11th Edition
Antioxidant?	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiozenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipancreatitic	1	Joseph, J., Nadeau, D. and Underwood, A. 2001. The Color Code. Hyperion, NY.
Antipapillomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiparkinsonian	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antiparotitic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.