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Plant Prunus persica (Rosaceae)

Common Names
Peach
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
TRYPTOPHAN 29 Fruit 20.0 162.0 -0.97 Duke, 1992 *
TYROSINE 8 Fruit 180.0 1458.0 -0.40 Duke, 1992 *
URSOLIC-ACID 89 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
VALINE 3 Fruit 380.0 3078.0 -0.28 Duke, 1992 *
VIT-B-6 0 Fruit 0.2 1.6 -1.11 Duke, 1992 *
WATER 0 Bark not available 792000.0 0.49 Duke, 1992 *
WATER 0 Fruit 835000.0 964000.0 0.84 Duke, 1992 *
ZEAXANTHIN 5 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ZINC 77 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ZINC 77 Fruit 0.5 37.5 0.22 Duke, 1992 *
ZINC 77 Seed not available 31.0 -0.40 Duke, 1992 *
ZIRCONIUM 0 Fruit 0.3 4.5 0.13 Duke, 1992 *
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
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 1 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 20 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide 11 Duke, 1992 *
Fungistat 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Fungitoxic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Gastroprotective 1 Duke, 1992 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Glutathionigenic 1 Martindale's 29th
Gonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Gram(+)icide 1 Duke, 1992 *
Gram(-)icide 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hematopoietic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Hemolytic 1 Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Hemostat 3 Duke, 1992 *
Hemostatic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Hepatocarcinogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *