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
ASPARAGINE	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASPARTIC-ACID	3	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZALDEHYDE	24	Fruit	not available	3.0	-0.79	Duke, 1992 *
BENZOIC-ACID-ETHYL-ESTER	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-ALANINE	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Fruit	1.0	6.0	-0.14	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-IONONE	13	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BORON	4	Fruit	1.0	80.0	0.81	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Fruit	140.0	1954.0	-0.44	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Fruit	103000.0	876960.0	0.50	Duke, 1992 *
CAROTENOIDS	0	Fruit	1.0	10.0	-0.51	Duke, 1992 *
CERASIDIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CERASIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CERASINONE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID	77	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHRYSIN	60	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRIC-ACID	23	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COUMARIN	57	Plant	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
Antigonadotropic	3	Jim Duke's personal files.
Antigout	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigranular	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiGTF	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihangover	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antiheartburn	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihematuric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihemolytic	3	Ohnishi, M., Morishita, H., Iwahashi, H., Toda, S., Shirataki, Y., Kimura, M., and Kido, R. 1993. Inhibitory Effects of Chlorogenic Acids on Linoleic Acid Peroxidation and Haemolysis. Phytochemistry. 36(3): 579-583. 1994.
Antihemorrhagic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihemorrhoidal	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatitic	3	Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Antihepatoadenomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihepatocarcinogenic	1	Akao, M. and Kuroda, K. 1990. Inhibitory Effect of Fumaric Acid on Hepatocarcinogenesis by Thioacetamide in Mice. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(7): 2012-2014, 1990.
Antihepatotoxic	18	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiherpetic	15	Duke, 1992 *
Antiherpetic?	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihistaminic	10	Duke, 1992 *
AntiHIV	12	Duke, 1992 *
Antihydrophobic	1	Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Antihyperactivity	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.