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.
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Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
PROTEIN	0	Fruit	9890.0	103000.0	-0.09	Duke, 1992 *
PROTOPECTIN	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PRUNASIN	2	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PRUNETIN	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN	176	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-7-HETEROSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCITRIN	44	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUINIC-ACID	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Fruit	0.0	5.0	0.00	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN	87	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SERINE	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SHIKIMIC-ACID	14	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM	1	Plant	30.0	216.0	-0.29	Duke, 1992 *
SORBITOL	11	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SQUALENE	10	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID	8	Fruit	160.0	1152.0	-0.20	Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID	8	Seed	8700.0	11600.0	-0.31	Duke, 1992 *
STIGMASTEROL	12	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SUCCINIC-ACID	7	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
Juvabional	5	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Keratitigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Keratolytic	2	Martindale's 28th
Larvicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Larvistat	4	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Laxative	7	Duke, 1992 *
Laxative?	2	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-91.
Leptingenic	1	Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000. Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Leucocytogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Leukotriene-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Lipase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	11	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.
Lithogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Litholytic	2	Martindale's 29th
Lubricant	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Lyase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Lymphocytogenic	2	Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp.
Lymphokinetic	1	Duke, 1992 *
MAO-A-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
MAO-Inhibitor	6	Duke, 1992 *