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

Common Names

Almond

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
STEARIC-ACID	8	Seed	10210.0	10680.0	-0.33	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
STIGMASTEROL	12	Sprout Seedling	30.0	33.0	-1.16	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
STRONTIUM	0	Seed	not available	16.0	-0.32	Duke, 1992 *
SUCROSE	14	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.
SUGAR	0	Seed	50000.0	100000.0	0.28	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
SULFUR	14	Seed	not available	3420.0	0.50	Duke, 1992 *
TANTALUM	0	Seed	not available	0.0	-0.42	Duke, 1992 *
THIAMIN	31	Seed	2.2	2.6	-0.95	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
THORIUM	0	Seed	not available	0.2	-0.20	Duke, 1992 *
THREONINE	4	Seed	7390.0	7730.0	-0.09	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
TIN	4	Seed	not available	0.7	-0.56	Duke, 1992 *
TITANIUM	0	Seed	not available	3.5	-0.53	Duke, 1992 *
TRIOLEIN	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.
TRYPTOPHAN	29	Seed	3580.0	3745.0	0.14	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
TUNGSTEN	0	Seed	not available	0.1	0.01	Duke, 1992 *
TYROSINE	8	Seed	7050.0	7374.0	-0.09	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
VALINE	3	Seed	10280.0	10752.0	-0.16	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
VANADIUM	16	Seed	not available	0.0	-0.57	Duke, 1992 *
VIT-B-6	0	Seed	not available	1.0	-1.57	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
YTTERBIUM	0	Seed	not available	0.1	-0.28	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
Antidote (Lead)	3	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antidote (Mercury)	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antidote (Paraquat)	1	Martindale's 28th
Antidysgeuzic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidyskinetic	2	Martindale's 28th
Antidysmenorrheic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antidyspeptic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidysphagic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antieczemic	4	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiedemic	5	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antielastase	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiencephalitic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiencephalopathic	7	Martindale's 29th
Antiencephalopathic?	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiendometriotic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antienterotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiepileptic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antiescherichic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiestrogenic	4	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifatigue	7	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.