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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Prunus domestica (Rosaceae)

Common Names
Plum
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
CHLOROGENIC-ACID 77 Fruit Jim Duke's personal files.
CHROMIUM 24 Fruit 0.0 1.2 -0.34 *
CITRIC-ACID 23 Fruit ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
COBALT 2 Fruit 0.0 0.3 -0.49 *
COPPER 12 Fruit 0.3 34.0 1.65 *
CRYPTOCHLOROGENIC-ACID 0 Fruit Jim Duke's personal files.
CYANIDIN 7 Plant *
CYSTINE 2 Fruit 40.0 270.0 -0.79 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
D-GALACTOSE 0 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
D-MANNOSE 0 Fruit ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
D-XYLOSE 0 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
DIHYDROKAEMPFERIDE 0 Wood ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
DIHYDROKAEMPFEROL 0 Wood ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
FAT 0 Fruit 6000.0 43243.0 -0.31 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
FAT 0 Seed 390000.0 420000.0 0.81 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
FERULIC-ACID 61 Fruit Jim Duke's personal files.
FIBER 15 Fruit 6000.0 40540.0 -0.95 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
FIBER 15 Seed 122000.0 -0.10 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
FLAVOXANTHIN 0 Fruit Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
FLUORINE 0 Fruit 0.1 0.6 -0.74 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antifibrotic 3 *
Antiflu 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antifuruncular 1 Martindale's 28th
Antigallstone 2 *
Antigastric 2 Rastitel'nye Resursy, 21: 85.
Antigastrisecretogogic 1 Grenand, P., Moretti, C., and Jacquemin, H. 1987. Pharmacopees Traditionnelles en Guyane. l'ORSTROM, Paris. 569 pp.
Antigastritic 4 Martindale's 29th
Antigastrotic 1 *
Antigenotoxic 1 *
Antigingivitic 3 *
Antiglaucomic 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiglossitic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiglycosuric 1 *
Antigonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antigonadotropic 3 Jim Duke's personal files.
Antigout 1 *
Antigranular 1 *
Antigrey 1 Martindale's 29th
AntiGTF 1 *
Antihangover 5 *