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Plant Punica granatum (Punicaceae)

Common Names
Pomegranate; Grenadier (Fr.); Granatapfelbaum (Ger.); Granatapfelstrauch (Ger.); Zakuro (Jap.); Romanzeiro (Port.); Granado (Sp.); Mangrano (Sp.)
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
FLUORIDE 3 Plant 0.2 0.3 -0.83 Duke, 1992 *
FRIEDELIN 2 Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
FRIEDELIN 2 Stem Bark not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
FRIEDOOLEANAN-3-ONE 0 Stem Bark not available not available not available Seeram, N. P., Schulman, R. N., and Heber, D., eds. 2006. Pomegranates - Ancient Roots to Modern Medicine. Taylor & Francis. Boca Raton, FL. 244 pp.
FRUCTOSE 8 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
FRUCTOSE 8 Fruit Juice not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
FUMARIC-ACID 7 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GALLAGYLDILACTON 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GALLIC-ACID 62 Fruit Juice not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GALLIC-ACID 62 Pericarp 900.0 40000.0 -1.00 Duke, 1992 *
GALLOCATECHIN 0 Fruit not available not available not available Seeram, N. P., Schulman, R. N., and Heber, D., eds. 2006. Pomegranates - Ancient Roots to Modern Medicine. Taylor & Francis. Boca Raton, FL. 244 pp.
GALLOCATECHIN-(4,8)-CATECHIN 0 Pericarp not available not available not available Seeram, N. P., Schulman, R. N., and Heber, D., eds. 2006. Pomegranates - Ancient Roots to Modern Medicine. Taylor & Francis. Boca Raton, FL. 244 pp.
GALLOCATECHIN-(4,8)-GALLOCATECHIN 0 Pericarp not available not available not available Seeram, N. P., Schulman, R. N., and Heber, D., eds. 2006. Pomegranates - Ancient Roots to Modern Medicine. Taylor & Francis. Boca Raton, FL. 244 pp.
GALLOTANNINS 0 Pericarp 200000.0 280000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-TOCOPHEROL 14 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE 7 Fruit 50000.0 110000.0 0.27 Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE 7 Fruit Juice not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GLYCERIN 1 Twig not available 300.0 not available Hegnauer, R. 1962-1997. Chemotaxonomie der Pflanzen, Bde 1-11. Birkhauser Verlag Basel, Boston, Berlin.
GRANATIN-A 2 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
GRANATIN-A 2 Pericarp 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
Metal-Chelator 3 McEvily, A.J., Iyengar, R., and Gross, A.T. Inhibition of Polyphenol Oxidase by Phenolic Compounds. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.25.
Metal-Chelator (Copper) 3 Duke, 1992 *
Metalloproteinase-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Metastatic 1 Science News, 146: 421.
MMP-9-Inhibitor 3 Duke, 1992 *
Mucolytic 1 Martindale's 28th
Musculotropic 1 Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Mutagenic 5 Duke, 1992 *
Mycobactericide 2 Duke, 1992 *
Mydriatic 2 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
Myoprotective 1 Duke, 1992 *
Myorelaxant 7 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Myostimulant 1 Duke, 1992 *
NADH-Oxidase-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Natriuretic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Nematicide 3 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Nematistat 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Neoplastic 1 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
NEP-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Nephrotoxic 3 Martindale's 29th