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
LEAD	0	Fruit	0.3	3.0	-0.31	Duke, 1992 *
LEUCINE	2	Fruit	400.0	3240.0	-0.40	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Fruit	440.0	3565.0	-0.31	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLENIC-ACID	0	Fruit	10.0	80.0	-0.92	Duke, 1992 *
LITHIUM	11	Fruit	0.1	0.6	-0.30	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEIN	15	Fruit	0.1	2.8	-0.59	Duke, 1992 *
LYCOPENE	16	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LYSINE	4	Fruit	230.0	1863.0	-0.58	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Bark	not available	4220.0	1.68	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Fruit	68.0	850.0	-0.59	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Seed	not available	3810.0	0.34	Duke, 1992 *
MALONIC-ACID	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Bark	not available	54.0	-0.32	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Fruit	0.0	22.5	-0.26	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Seed	not available	17.0	-0.45	Duke, 1992 *
MERCURY	1	Fruit	0.0	0.0	-0.51	Duke, 1992 *
METHIONINE	15	Fruit	170.0	1377.0	0.52	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-ACETATE	3	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-FRUCTOFURANOSIDE	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 *