Plant Solanum melongena (Solanaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Aubergine; Eggplant

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
LYCOPENE	16	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LYCOXANTHIN	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LYSINE	4	Fruit	510.0	6320.0	0.57	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Fruit	85.0	1563.0	-0.26	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Fruit	1.4	40.0	-0.14	Duke, 1992 *
MERCURY	1	Fruit	0.0	0.0	-0.79	Duke, 1992 *
METHIONINE	15	Fruit	60.0	1487.0	0.65	Duke, 1992 *
MOLYBDENUM	2	Fruit	0.5	0.6	-0.37	Duke, 1992 *
MUFA	13	Fruit	90.0	1152.0	-0.24	Duke, 1992 *
N-TRANS-FERULOYL-OCTOPAMINE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-TRANS-FERULOYL-TYRAMINE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-TRANS-P-COUMAROYL-OCTOPAMINE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-TRANS-P-COUMAROYL-TYRAMINE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NASUNIN	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEO-CHLOROGENIC-ACID	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Fruit	0.9	98.0	0.50	Duke, 1992 *
NICKEL	3	Fruit	0.7	0.8	-0.54	Duke, 1992 *
NITROGEN	0	Fruit	5400.0	10250.0	-0.31	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Fruit	80.0	991.0	-0.47	Duke, 1992 *
OXALIC-ACID	9	Fruit	not available	291.0	-0.29	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
Detoxicant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Detoxicant (Alcohol)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diuretic	9	Duke, 1992 *
DNA-Active	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
DNA-Protective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Embryotoxic	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Emetic	1	Martindale's 29th
Encephalopathic	1	Martindale's 29th
Energizer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Epidermal-Stimulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ergogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Erythrocytogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Erythrocytolytic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Essential	8	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Estrogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Fatal	1	Martindale's 29th
Fibrinolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Fistula-Preventive	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Flatugenic	1	Singh, J., Gupta, K., and Arora, S.K. 1993. Changes in the anti-nutritional factors of developing seeds and pod walls of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum L.). Plant Foods for Human Nutrition. 46: 77-84, 1994.
FLavor	7	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry