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
OLEANOLIC-ACID	64	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Fruit	810.0	5832.0	-0.44	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	148200.0	197600.0	0.65	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-CRESOL	8	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-HYDROXY-BENZOIC-ACID	13	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PAEONIDIN	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PAEONIDIN-3-DIGLUCOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PAEONIDIN-3-RUTINOSIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Fruit	480.0	3456.0	-0.31	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed	12900.0	17200.0	-0.34	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITOLEIC-ACID	2	Fruit	10.0	72.0	-0.33	Duke, 1992 *
PANTOTHENIC-ACID	11	Fruit	1.0	10.0	-0.52	Duke, 1992 *
PECTINESTERASE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PECTINS	0	Fruit	6000.0	18000.0	-0.65	Duke, 1992 *
PHENYLALANINE	7	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Fruit	150.0	2302.0	-0.28	Duke, 1992 *
PIPECOLIC-ACID	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Fruit	1120.0	19277.0	0.12	Duke, 1992 *
PROLINE	0	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
DOPA-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Dye	2	Merck 11th Edition
Elastase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Embryotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Emetic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Enterorelaxant	1	J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Ergogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Essential	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Estrogen-Agonist	1	Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 139.1999.
Estrogenic	11	Duke, 1992 *
Estrogenic?	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Expectorant	2	Martindale's 28th
Febrifuge	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fibrinolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Fistula-Preventive	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Flatugenic	1	Martindale's 29th
Flatulent	1	Duke, 1992 *
FLavor	17	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Floral-Inhibitor	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Fungicide	19	Martindale's 29th