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

Common Names
Almond
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
MUCILAGE 3 Seed 20000.0 40000.0 -0.99 *
MUFA 13 Seed 339020.0 354615.0 1.77 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
MYRISTIC-ACID 6 Seed 2980.0 3117.0 -0.26 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
NIACIN 39 Seed 26.0 63.0 0.60 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
NICKEL 3 Seed 1.2 1.6 -0.60 Furr, A.K., et al. 1979
NITROGEN 0 Seed 3700.0 4315.0 -1.64 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
OLEIC-ACID 18 Seed 231000.0 478170.0 2.95 *
OXALIC-ACID 9 Seed 4073.0 0.16 Watt, J.M. and Breyer-Brandwijk, M.G. 1962. The Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of Southern and Eastern Africa. E. & S. Livingstone, Ltd. Edinburg & London. 1457 pp.
P-COUMARIC-ACID 25 Plant *
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Seed 19950.0 48980.0 0.31 *
PALMITOLEIC-ACID 2 Seed 3040.0 3180.0 -0.22 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PANTOTHENIC-ACID 11 Seed 4.0 5.0 -1.23 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PENTOSANS 0 Seed List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
PHENETHYLAMINE 3 Seed Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
PHENYL-ETHYL-ALCOHOL 0 Flower *
PHENYLACETIC-ACID 2 Flower *
PHENYLALANINE 7 Seed 11130.0 11642.0 0.01 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PHOSPHORUS 4 Seed 4420.0 8735.0 0.89 *
PHYTATE 0 Seed 12800.0 13640.0 0.15 *
PHYTIC-ACID 9 Seed 3624.0 -1.07 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Nephrotoxic 4 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Neuroexcitant 1 Martindale's 28th
Neuroinhibitor 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Neuroprotective 3 *
Neurotoxic 2 R.J. Hixtable (Huxtable, R.J. (as T. Max). 1992. This and That:The Essential Pharmacology of Herbs and Spices. Tips 13:15-20 Huxtable, R.J. 1992b. The Myth of Benficent Nature. The Risk of Herbal Preparations. Anns. Intern. Med. 117(2):165-6; Huxtable, R.
Neurotransmitter 1 *
NF-kB-Inhibitor 3 *
NO-Genic 1 *
NO-Inhibitor 3 *
NO-Synthase-Inhibitor 1 *
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor 4 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.
Ovulant 1 *
Oxidant 2 Larson, R.A. 1987. Review Article Number 30. The Antioxidants of Higher Plants. Phytochemistry. 27: 969-978.
P450-Inducer 1 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
P450-Inhibitor 1 Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
PAF-Inhibitor 1 *
Pancreatoxic 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
Paralytic 1 *
Parasiticide 2 *