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

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
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Fruit	90.0	730.0	-0.35	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITOLEIC-ACID	2	Fruit	10.0	80.0	-0.33	Duke, 1992 *
PANTOTHENIC-ACID	11	Fruit	2.0	14.0	-0.26	Duke, 1992 *
PECTINS	0	Fruit	not available	8600.0	-1.27	Duke, 1992 *
PENTANOIC-ACID	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PENTYL-ACETATE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHENYLALANINE	7	Plant	220.0	1782.0	-1.29	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Bark	not available	3150.0	1.62	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Fruit	90.0	2000.0	-0.37	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTIN-PHOSPHORUS	0	Fruit	not available	10.0	-1.23	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTOSTEROLS	2	Fruit	100.0	810.0	-0.17	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Bark	not available	19400.0	2.90	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Fruit	1275.0	22072.0	0.37	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Seed	not available	7010.0	-0.49	Duke, 1992 *
PROLINE	0	Fruit	290.0	2349.0	-0.46	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Fruit	6850.0	63000.0	-0.62	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Seed	239000.0	312000.0	0.70	Duke, 1992 *
PRUNASIN	2	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PUFA	4	Fruit	450.0	3645.0	-0.58	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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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 *