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
ASH	0	Fruit	4000.0	150000.0	2.42	Duke, 1992 *
ASPARTIC-ACID	3	Fruit	1170.0	8586.0	-0.21	Duke, 1992 *
BARIUM	0	Fruit	0.0	30.0	0.24	Duke, 1992 *
BENZALDEHYDE	24	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZALDEHYDE	24	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZALDEHYDECYANHYDRIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZYL-ACETATE	9	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZYL-ALCOHOL	9	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Fruit	0.0	30.0	-0.09	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BORON	4	Fruit	1.0	150.0	2.22	Duke, 1992 *
BROMINE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CADMIUM	3	Fruit	0.0	0.5	0.68	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID-ESTER	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Fruit	18.0	8850.0	1.15	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Seed	not available	970.0	-0.58	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPESTEROL	2	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPESTEROL-3-O-BETA-(6-O-OLEYL)-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPESTEROL-3-O-BETA-(6-O-PALMITYL)-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE	0	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
Percutaneostimulant	2	Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990.
Perfumery	8	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Pesticide	32	Duke, 1992 *
PGE2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Phagocytotic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Phospholipase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Piscicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Pituitary-Stimulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Plasmodicide	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Polyamine-Synthesis-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Potassium-Sparing	1	Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Poultice	1	Martindale's 29th
Preservative	3	Merck 11th Edition
Prolactinogenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Proliferant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Prooxidant	5	Duke, 1992 *
Propecic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandigenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Sparer	1	Fujita, T., Nakatani, E., Funaishi, N., Sakuma, S., Fujimoto, Y. Potent inhibition of prostaglandin inactivation in rabbit gastric antral mucosal slices by selenium ions in-vitro. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 655-657, 1990.
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *