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Plant Sorbus aucubaria (Rosaceae)

Common Names
Rowan Berry
How this plant is used
Food

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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
MAGNESIUM 65 Fruit 190.0 1190.0 -0.44 Duke, 1992 *
MALIC-ACID 15 Fruit 19000.0 39000.0 1.59 Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE 14 Fruit 12.0 75.0 0.09 Duke, 1992 *
MERCURY 1 Fruit 0.0 0.0 -0.32 Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-PENTOSANE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MOLYBDENUM 2 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NEO-CHLOROGENIC-ACID 2 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
NICKEL 3 Fruit 0.1 0.4 -0.66 Duke, 1992 *
NITROGEN 0 Fruit 2100.0 11900.0 -0.19 Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID 25 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PARASORBIC-ACID 4 Fruit not available 400.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
PARASORBOSIDE 2 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PECTIN 24 Fruit not available 10000.0 -0.51 Duke, 1992 *
PENTOSANS 0 Wood not available 295300.0 1.72 Duke, 1992 *
PHLOROGLUCINOL 8 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS 4 Fruit 360.0 1880.0 -0.41 Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM 14 Fruit 2900.0 13075.0 -0.43 Duke, 1992 *
PROTOCATECHUIC-ACID 43 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN 176 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3-0-GALACTOSIDE 0 Leaf 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
Antifibrositic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antifibrotic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antiflu 3 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antifuruncular 1 Martindale's 28th
Antigallstone 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antigastric 1 Rastitel'nye Resursy, 21: 85.
Antigastritic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antigastrotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigenotoxic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigingivitic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiglaucomic 3 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiglycosation 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antiglycosuric 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antigonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antigonadotropic 3 Jim Duke's personal files.
Antigout 1 Duke, 1992 *
AntiGTF 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihangover 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antihematuric 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antihemolytic 2 Ohnishi, M., Morishita, H., Iwahashi, H., Toda, S., Shirataki, Y., Kimura, M., and Kido, R. 1993. Inhibitory Effects of Chlorogenic Acids on Linoleic Acid Peroxidation and Haemolysis. Phytochemistry. 36(3): 579-583. 1994.