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
Fungistat	3	Duke, 1992 *
Gastroprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Gonadotrophic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Gram(+)icide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Gram(-)icide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hematopoietic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Hemolytic	1	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Hemopoietic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hemorrhagic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hemostat	5	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatocarcinogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatomagenic	2	Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Hepatoprotective	18	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotonic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotoxic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotropic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Herbicide	2	Duke, 1992 *
Herbistat	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Herpetifuge	1	Duke, 1992 *