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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Psidium guajava (Myrtaceae)

Common Names
Guava
How this plant is used
Food

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
GUAVIN-C 0 Leaf *
GUAVIN-D 0 Leaf *
HEPTAN-1-AL 0 Fruit *
HEX-3-EN-1-OL-ACETATE 0 Pericarp Essent. Oil *
HEX-CIS-3-EN-1-OL 0 Fruit 10000.0 *
HEX-CIS-3-EN-1-OL-ACETATE 0 Fruit 5000.0 *
HEX-CIS-3-ENOIC-ACID 0 Fruit 0.2 *
HEXADECANOIC-ACID-ETHYL-ESTER 0 Fruit *
HEXAGALLOYL-GLUCOSE 0 Root *
HEXAN-1-AL 0 Fruit 32000.0 *
HEXAN-1-OL-ACETATE 0 Pericarp Essent. Oil *
HEXANOIC-ACID-ETHYL-ESTER 0 Fruit 155000.0 *
HEXANOIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER 0 Fruit 3000.0 1.00 *
HEXYL-ACETATE 1 Fruit 3000.0 *
HISTIDINE 7 Fruit 70.0 504.0 -0.85 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
HYPEROSIDE 30 Leaf *
IRON 6 Fruit 3.0 73.0 -0.24 *
ISOLEUCINE 3 Fruit 300.0 2160.0 -0.44 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ISOQUERCETIN 3 Leaf *
ISOSTRICTININ 0 Leaf 30.0 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
iNOS-Inhibitor 1 *
Inotropic 1 *
Insecticide 9 *
Insectifuge 15 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insectiphile 2 J. Stored. Prod. Res., 22:141, 1986.
Insulin-Sparing 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Insulinase-Inhibitor 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 157.
Insulinogenic 3 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Insulinotonic 1 J. Agri. & Food Chemistry, 36: 1079.
Interferon-Synergist 1 *
Interferonogenic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor 2 *
Irritant 14 Yamamoto, A., Umemori, S., and Muranishi, S. 1993. Absorption Enhancement of Intrapulmonary Administered Insulin by Various Absorption Enhancers and Protease Inhibitors in Rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 46: 14-18, 1994.
Juvabional 3 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Keratolytic 2 Martindale's 28th
Larvicide 5 *
Larvistat 2 Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Laxative 6 *
Laxative? 1 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-91.
Leptingenic 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95