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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
Taenicide 1 Merck 11th Edition
Teratogenic 1 Martindale's 29th
Teratologic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Thermogenic 1 Newman, R. A., Lansky, E. P., with Block, M. L. 2007. Pomegranate - The Most Medicinal Fruit. Basic Health Publications, Laguna Beach, CA. 120 pp.
Thyrotropic 1 Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
TNF-alpha-Inhibitor 6 Duke, 1992 *
TOPO-2-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Topoisomerase-I-Antagonist 1 Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 167.1999.
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor 9 Santti, R., Makela, S., Strauss, L., Korman, J., Kostian, M. L. 1998. Phytoestrogens: Potential Endocrine Disruptors in Males. Toxicol Ind Health, 14: 223-237.
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor 17 Duke, 1992 *
Toxic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Tranquilizer 2 Duke, 1992 *
Transdermal 2 Duke, 1992 *
Triglycerigenic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Trypanocide 2 Duke, 1992 *
Tumorigenic 2 Jim Duke's personal files.
Tyrosinase-Inhibitor 5 Duke, 1992 *
Tyrosine-Kinase-Inhibitor 3 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.
Ubiquiot 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ulcerogenic 2 Duke, 1992 *