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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
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
Serotonin-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Serotoninergic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Soap 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Sodium-Sparing 1 Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Spermicide 2 Martindale's 28th
Spermigenic 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Stimulant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Sunscreen 4 Lazarova*, G., Kostova, I., Neychev, H. 1992. Photodynamic damage prevention by some hydroxycoumarins. Fitoterapia 64(2): 134-136, 1993.
Suppository 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Surfactant 1 Schulz, V, Hansel, R and Tyler, VE. 1998. Rational Phytotherapy - A Physician's Guide to Herbal Medicine. 3rd ed. 1st English Edition. Translated by Terry C. Telger. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg. 306 pp.
Sweetener 2 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Taenicide 1 Martindale's 28th
Teratogenic 2 Borchard, R. E., Barnes, C. D., and Eltherton, L. G. 1991. Drug Dosage in Laboratory Animals: A Handbook. (3rd Ed.) The Telford Press, Inc., P. O. Box 287, Caldwell NJ 07006.
Teratologic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Termiticide 1 Duke, 1992 *
Testosteronigenic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Thymoprotective 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
TNF-alpha-Inhibitor 3 Duke, 1992 *
TOPO-2-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor 3 Santti, R., Makela, S., Strauss, L., Korman, J., Kostian, M. L. 1998. Phytoestrogens: Potential Endocrine Disruptors in Males. Toxicol Ind Health, 14: 223-237.