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
FIBER	15	Fruit	9000.0	137000.0	-0.04	Duke, 1992 *
FOLACIN	15	Fruit	0.1	2.6	0.23	Duke, 1992 *
GABA	22	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-HYDROXYGLUTAMIC-ACID	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUTAMIC-ACID	8	Fruit	2010.0	24907.0	0.91	Duke, 1992 *
GLYCINE	12	Fruit	320.0	5452.0	0.71	Duke, 1992 *
GLYCOALKALOIDS	0	Fruit	280.0	470.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
HCN	9	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HISTIDINE	7	Fruit	240.0	3098.0	0.97	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Fruit	3.0	137.0	0.02	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Leaf	155.0	1140.0	1.97	Duke, 1992 *
ISOLEUCINE	3	Fruit	480.0	5948.0	0.69	Duke, 1992 *
ISOSCOPOLETIN	1	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KILOCALORIES	0	Fruit	250.0	3370.0	-0.44	Duke, 1992 *
KILOCALORIES	0	Leaf	150.0	2790.0	-0.37	Duke, 1992 *
LEAD	0	Fruit	1.4	1.6	-0.40	Duke, 1992 *
LEUCINE	2	Fruit	570.0	8550.0	0.73	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Fruit	350.0	4337.0	-0.29	Duke, 1992 *
LITHIUM	11	Fruit	0.3	0.3	-0.66	Duke, 1992 *
LUBIMIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Fungicide	11	Duke, 1992 *
Gastroprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Glutathionigenic	1	Martindale's 29th
Hematopoietic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Hemolytic	3	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Hemorrhagic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hemostat	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hemostatic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Hepatocarcinogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatomegalic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatoprotective	12	Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 210.
Hepatotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotropic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Herbicide	2	Angewandte Botanik 68(5/6)=1994. Page 195.
Herbistat	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Histamine-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hydrocholerectic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypercholesterolemic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Hypertensive	5	Duke, 1992 *