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Plant Prunus dulcis (Rosaceae)

Common Names
Almond
How this plant is used
Food
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
BROMINE 0 Seed not available 20.0 0.32 Furr, A.K., et al. 1979
CADMIUM 3 Seed 0.0 0.0 -0.34 Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM 28 Seed 2426.0 2962.0 -0.22 Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM-OXALATE 4 Seed not available not available not available Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
CAMPESTEROL 2 Seed not available 50.0 -0.52 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
CAPROIC-ACID 1 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATE 0 Seed 129000.0 243000.0 -1.16 Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Seed 204000.0 213284.0 -1.23 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
CESIUM 0 Seed not available 0.1 -0.34 Duke, 1992 *
CHLORINE 7 Seed not available 28.0 -0.68 Duke, 1992 *
CHROMIUM 24 Seed 0.1 1.7 -0.43 Duke, 1992 *
CITROSTADIENOL 1 Seed not available not available not available Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
COBALT 2 Seed 0.1 0.2 -0.20 Duke, 1992 *
COPPER 12 Seed 1.0 11.0 -0.35 Duke, 1992 *
CRESOL 5 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CYANIDIN 7 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CYSTINE 2 Seed 3580.0 3745.0 0.41 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
D-GALACTOSE 0 Gum not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
D-GLUCURONIC-ACID 0 Gum 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
Encephalopathic 1 Martindale's 29th
Energizer 1 Duke, 1992 *
Enterorelaxant 1 J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Ergogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Erythrocytogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Essential 7 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Estrogenic 5 Duke, 1992 *
Expectorant 2 Oriental Materia Medica (three volumes by Dr. Hsu and collaborators)
Fatal 1 Martindale's 29th
Febrifuge 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fibrinolytic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Fistula-Preventive 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Flatugenic 3 Singh, J., Gupta, K., and Arora, S.K. 1993. Changes in the anti-nutritional factors of developing seeds and pod walls of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum L.). Plant Foods for Human Nutrition. 46: 77-84, 1994.
FLavor 11 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide 11 Duke, 1992 *
Gastroprotective 1 Duke, 1992 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Goitrogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Gonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Hematopoietic 2 Merck 11th Edition