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
5-HYDROXYTRYPTAMINE	15	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
9-OXO-NEROLIDOL	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALANINE	3	Fruit	420.0	6815.0	1.22	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-LINOLENIC-ACID	15	Fruit	70.0	867.0	-0.76	Duke, 1992 *
ALUMINUM	5	Fruit	10.0	16.0	-0.22	Duke, 1992 *
ARACHIDIC-ACID	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARGININE	14	Fruit	610.0	7559.0	0.87	Duke, 1992 *
ARSENIC	2	Fruit	0.0	0.0	-0.53	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Fruit	13.0	947.0	-0.23	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Leaf	790.0	5809.0	0.10	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Fruit	5000.0	80000.0	0.60	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Leaf	20000.0	147000.0	0.50	Duke, 1992 *
ASPARTIC-ACID	3	Fruit	1770.0	21933.0	1.55	Duke, 1992 *
AUBERGENONE	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BARIUM	0	Fruit	3.5	5.6	-1.02	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-AMINO-4-ETHYL-GLYOXALINE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Fruit	0.0	6.0	-0.14	Duke, 1992 *
BORON	4	Fruit	1.0	8.0	-0.64	Duke, 1992 *
CADMIUM	3	Fruit	0.3	0.4	0.65	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Fruit	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
Hypnotic	1	Martindale's 29th
Hypoammonemic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypoarginanemic	1	Martindale's 29th
Hypocholesterolemic	15	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypoglycemic	9	Duke, 1992 *
Hypolipidemic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive	12	Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp.
Hypouricemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ileorelaxant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator	7	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Immunostimulant	9	Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp.
Immunosuppressant	3	Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide	4	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Insectifuge	8	Tunon, H., Thorsell, W., and Bohlin, L. 1993. Mosquito Repelling Activity of Compounds Occurring in Achillea millefolium L. (Asteraceae). Economic Botany 48(2): 111-120, 1994.
Insectifuge?	1	Martindale's 28th
Insulin-Sparing	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Insulinase-Inhibitor	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 157.
Insulinogenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Insulinotonic	1	J. Agri. & Food Chemistry, 36: 1079.
Interferon-Synergist	1	Duke, 1992 *