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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.
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
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 *
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 *