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
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 *