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
VALINE	3	Fruit	550.0	7063.0	0.54	Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIN	28	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VIT-B-6	0	Fruit	0.9	11.6	0.57	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Fruit	905000.0	932000.0	0.70	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Leaf	not available	864000.0	0.28	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Fruit	18.0	25.6	-0.14	Duke, 1992 *
ZIRCONIUM	0	Fruit	1.4	1.6	-0.41	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
Antiatherosclerotic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antibackache	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antibacterial	9	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiberiberi	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiBPH	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibronchitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibronchoconstrictor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer	4	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Bladder)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Cervix)	2	Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
Anticancer (Colon)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Esophagus)?	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticancer (Forestomach)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Liver)	3	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Prostate)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Skin)	3	Duke, 1992 *
Anticanker	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticarcinogenic	3	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).