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
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.