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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Prunus domestica (Rosaceae)

Common Names
Plum
How this plant is used
Food
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Fruit 410.0 2770.0 -0.32 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Seed 2340.0 2520.0 -0.65 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PALMITOLEIC-ACID 2 Fruit 50.0 338.0 -0.28 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PANTOTHENIC-ACID 11 Fruit 1.8 13.0 -0.33 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PECTIN 24 Fruit 8000.0 40000.0 -0.16 *
PERSICAXANTHIN 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
PHENYLALANINE 7 Fruit 170.0 1149.0 -0.75 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PHOSPHATIDES 0 Seed 3000.0 -1.35 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PHOSPHORUS 4 Fruit 70.0 4080.0 0.26 *
PHYLLOQUINONE 5 Fruit 0.1 -0.22 *
PHYTOSTEROLS 2 Sprout Seedling 70.0 700.0 -1.27 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
POTASSIUM 14 Fruit 1677.0 44200.0 2.33 *
PROLINE 0 Fruit 340.0 2297.0 -0.47 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PROTEIN 0 Fruit 7660.0 55000.0 -0.73 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PROTEIN 0 Seed 202000.0 -0.28 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PRUDOMESTIN 0 Wood ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PUFA 4 Fruit 1340.0 9054.0 -0.19 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
QUERCETIN 176 Plant *
QUINIC-ACID 1 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
RHAMNOSE 0 Fruit USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
iNOS-Inhibitor 2 *
Inotropic 2 *
Insecticide 1 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insectifuge 8 Tunon, H., Thorsell, W., and Bohlin, L. 1993. Mosquito Repelling Activity of Compounds Occurring in Achillea millefolium L. (Asteraceae). Economic Botany 48(2): 111-120, 1994.
Insulin-Sparing 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Insulinogenic 4 *
Interferon-Synergist 1 *
Interferonogenic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Iodothyronine-Deiodinase-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Irritant 4 Merck 11th Edition
JNK-Inhibitor 1 *
Juvabional 2 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Keratolytic 1 Martindale's 29th
Larvistat 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Laxative 5 *
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
Leukotriene-Inhibitor 2 *
Lipotropic 2 Merck 11th Edition
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 6 Oszmianski, J. and Lee, C.Y. 1990. Inhibitory Effect of Phenolics on Carotene Bleaching in Vegetables. J. Agric. Food Chem. 38: 688-690.