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
SUGARS	0	Fruit	68000.0	104400.0	-0.45	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Bark	50000.0	70000.0	-0.62	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
TARTARIC-ACID	6	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TAXIFOLIN	17	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TAXIFOLIN-3-HETEROSIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TECTOCHRYSIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THIAMIN	31	Fruit	0.0	5.0	-0.04	Duke, 1992 *
THREONINE	4	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TYROSINE	8	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
URSOLIC-ACID	89	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VALINE	3	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIC-ACID	24	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Fruit	826000.0	874000.0	0.45	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Fruit	1.0	7.0	-0.70	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Narcotic	2	Merck 11th Edition
Natriuretic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Nematicide	6	Shoyakugaku Zasshi, 44: 183.
Neoplastic	1	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
NEP-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Nephrotoxic	2	Martindale's 29th
Neuroexcitant	1	Martindale's 28th
Neuroinhibitor	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Neuroprotective	4	Duke, 1992 *
Neurotoxic	4	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Neurotransmitter	2	Duke, 1992 *
NF-kB-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Genic	3	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
NO-Synthase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Nodulation-Signal	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Odontolytic	1	Zebovitz, T. C. Ed. 1989. Part VII. Flavor and Fragrance Substances, in Keith L. H. and Walters, D.B., eds. Compendium of Safety Data Sheets for Research and Industrial Chemicals. VCH Publishers, New York. 3560-4253.
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor	8	Hagerman, A.E. Tannin-Protein Interactions. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.19.
Osteogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Osteolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *