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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Trigonella foenum-graecum (Fabaceae)

Common Names
Fenugreek; Greek Clover; Greek Hay; Bockshornklee (Ger.); Alholva (Sp.)
How this plant is used
Food
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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Shoot *
ASH 0 Seed 5070.0 39000.0 -0.27 *
ASPARTIC-ACID 3 Seed 23220.0 29790.0 0.64 *
BEHENIC-ACID 1 Plant *
BEHENIC-ACID 1 Seed Oil 26400.0 1.51 *
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Leaf 23.0 278.0 0.07 *
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Seed 0.2 -0.42 *
BETA-MANNANAN 0 Plant *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Leaf *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Plant *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Seed 800.0 1000.0 -0.25 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Tissue Culture 8.7 400.0 -0.72 *
BIOTIN 4 Sprout Seedling ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
CALCIUM 28 Leaf 12900.0 -0.38 *
CALCIUM 28 Seed 95.0 730.0 -0.63 *
CAMPESTEROL 2 Seed 180.0 -0.25 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
CAMPESTEROL 2 Tissue Culture 10.0 1.00 *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Seed 76830.0 591000.0 0.27 *
CARPAINE 17 Seed 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.
CATECHOLS 0 Fruit 2600.0 4900.0 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.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Anticapillary-Fragility 1 Merck 7th Ed.
Anticarcinogenic 1 *
Anticarcinomic 3 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticarcinomic (Breast) 2 Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Anticardiospasmic 1 *
Anticariogenic 1 *
Anticarpal-Tunnel 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticataract 11 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticephalagic 4 *
Anticerebrotic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticervicaldysplasic 5 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
AntiCFS 3 *
Anticheilitic 5 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antichilblain 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antichoreic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticirrhotic 3 *
Anticlastogen 2 *
Anticlimacteric 5 Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
Anticoeliac 1 Martindale's 28th
Anticold 2 *