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Plant Solanum melongena (Solanaceae)

Common Names
Aubergine; Eggplant
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
SODIUM 1 Fruit 20.0 2150.0 0.02 Duke, 1992 *
SOLAMARGINE 9 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SOLANIDINE 5 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SOLANINE 26 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SOLASODINE 18 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SOLASONINE 11 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID 8 Fruit 50.0 620.0 -0.24 Duke, 1992 *
STRONTIUM 0 Fruit 2.0 5.6 -1.02 Duke, 1992 *
SUCROSE 14 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SUGAR 0 Fruit 20000.0 30000.0 -1.07 Duke, 1992 *
SULFUR 14 Fruit 126.0 152.0 -0.88 Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN 35 Fruit not available 2000.0 -0.89 Duke, 1992 *
THIAMIN 31 Fruit 0.4 10.0 0.60 Duke, 1992 *
THREONINE 4 Fruit 380.0 4957.0 0.81 Duke, 1992 *
TITANIUM 0 Fruit 0.4 0.4 -0.74 Duke, 1992 *
TRIGONELLINE 15 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRYPTAMINE 4 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRYPTOPHAN 29 Fruit 100.0 1239.0 0.55 Duke, 1992 *
TYRAMINE 11 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TYROSINE 8 Fruit 250.0 3593.0 0.49 Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
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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