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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
QUERCETIN 176 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3'-GLUCOSIDE 2 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3'-GLUCOSIDE 2 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3-0-GALACTOSIDE 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3-0-GALACTOSIDE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3-0-RUTINOSIDE 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3-DIGLUCOSIDE 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3-DIGLUCOSIDE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3-O-RHAMNOSIDE 1 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3-O-RHAMNOSIDE 1 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
QUERCITRIN 44 Flower not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
QUINIC-ACID 1 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Fruit 1.0 4.0 -0.22 Duke, 1992 *
SELENIUM 60 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SELENIUM 60 Fruit 0.0 0.0 -0.39 Duke, 1992 *
SERINE 1 Fruit 320.0 2592.0 -0.37 Duke, 1992 *
SFA 0 Fruit 100.0 810.0 -0.36 Duke, 1992 *
SILICON 4 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SILICON 4 Fruit 4.0 30.0 -0.51 Duke, 1992 *
SILVER 3 Fruit 0.0 0.3 0.11 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
Protease-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor 2 Naim, M., Zehavi, U., Nagy, S., and Rouseff, R.L. Hydroxycinnamic Acids as Off-Flavor Precursors in Citrus Fruits and Their Products. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.14.
Protisticide 3 Martindale's 29th
Psychotropic 1 Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
PTK-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Quinone-Reductase-Inducer 5 Duke, 1992 *
Refrigerant 1 Martindale's 28th
Renotoxic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Respiraparalytic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Respirastimulant 1 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Respirotoxic 1 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Retinoprotectant Optometry 1 Duke, 1992 *
Reverse-Transcriptase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Roborant 1 Merck 11th Edition
Rodenticide 1 Martindale's 29th
Rubefacient 1 Martindale's 29th
Scabicide 1 Martindale's 29th
Schizophrenigenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Sclerosant 1 Martindale's 29th
Sedative 6 Buchbauer et al, e.g.Buchbauer et al,1993.Therapeutic properties of essential oils and fragrances. Chap.12 in Teranishi,R, Buttery,R.G and Sugisawa,H. Eds. Bioactive Volatile Compounds from Plants. ACS Symposium Series 525. Amer. Chem. Soc., Washington DC