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Plant Prunus persica (Rosaceae)

Common Names
Peach
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
ETHYL-ACETATE 6 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ETHYL-BENZOATE 1 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
FAT 0 Fruit 860.0 18000.0 -0.50 Duke, 1992 *
FAT 0 Seed 399000.0 456000.0 1.00 Duke, 1992 *
FERULIC-ACID 61 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
FIBER 15 Fruit 6210.0 162000.0 0.19 Duke, 1992 *
FIBER 15 Seed not available 148000.0 0.10 Duke, 1992 *
FLAVONOL-GLYCOSIDES 0 Fruit not available 10.0 -1.00 Duke, 1992 *
FLAVONOL-GYLCOSIDES 0 Leaf 7500.0 10400.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
FLUORINE 0 Fruit 0.1 0.8 -0.55 Duke, 1992 *
FOLACIN 15 Fruit 0.0 0.3 -0.71 Duke, 1992 *
FORMIC-ACID 13 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-HEPTALACTONE 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-HEXALACTONE 1 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-NONALACTONE 2 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-OCTALACTONE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GIBBERELLIN-A-32 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GIBBERELLIN-A-32-ACETONIDE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GIBBERELLIN-A-5 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE 7 Seed 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
Antiprostatadenomic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Antiprostatitic 7 Duke, 1992 *
Antiprostatotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antipruritic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antipsoriac 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antipsychotic 3 Martindale's 29th
Antipurpuric 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antipyretic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiradicular 13 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
AntiRaynaud's 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antirenitic 1 Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Antiretardation 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiretinitic Optometry 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiretinopathic 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
Antiretinotic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antirheumatic 8 Duke, 1992 *
Antirheumatitic? 1 Martindale's 29th
Antirhinitic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antisalmonella 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antischizophrenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.