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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Ribes nigrum (Grossulariaceae)

Common Names
Black Currant
How this plant is used
Food

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
NORVALINE 0 Fruit Juice 17.0 *
O-COUMARIC-ACID 4 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
OCT-1-EN-3-OL 0 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
OCTEN-1-OL-(3) 0 Leaf 13.0 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
OLEIC-ACID 18 Fruit 560.0 3102.0 -0.46 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
OLEIC-ACID 18 Seed Essent. Oil 120000.0 -0.71 *
OLEIC-ACID 18 Seed Oil *
OXALIC-ACID 9 Fruit 200.0 -0.30 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID 25 Fruit *
P-CYMENE 16 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
P-CYMENOL-(4) 0 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
P-CYMOL 0 Leaf 3.0 -0.54 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
P-MENTH-1,8-DIEN-4-OL 0 Bud *
P-METHYLISOPROPENYLBENZOL 0 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Fruit 200.0 1108.0 -0.35 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PALMITOLEIC-ACID 2 Fruit 70.0 388.0 -0.27 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PANTOTHENIC-ACID 11 Fruit 4.0 22.0 0.25 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PECTIN 24 Fruit *
PECTINESTERASE 0 Fruit *
PELARGONIDIN-3-O-BETA-D-RUTINOSIDE 0 Fruit Juice *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antifatigue 8 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antifeedant 11 *
Antifertility 2 Kumar, P., Dixit*, V.P., and Khanna, P. Antifertility Studies of Kaempferol: Isolation and Identification from Tissue Culture of some Medicinally Important Plant Species. Plantes medicinales et phytotherapie, 23: 193-201, 1989.
Antifibrinolytic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antifibromyalgic 1 *
Antifibrosarcomic 1 *
Antifibrotic 3 *
Antiflu 6 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 195.
Antifuruncular 1 Martindale's 28th
Antigallstone 2 *
Antigastric 2 *
Antigastritic 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antigastrotic 1 *
Antigenotoxic 1 *
Antigingivitic 3 *
Antiglaucomic 3 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiglossitic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiglutamaergic 1 *
Antiglycosuric 1 *
Antigonadotrophic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.