Plant Triticum aestivum (Poaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Wheat

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
ALPHA-AMYLASE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-AMYRIN	10	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-CARBOXYLASE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-DIHYDROXYCAROTENE	0	Seed	not available	1.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL	32	Oil	1508.0	2170.0	2.51	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL	32	Seed	not available	1271.0	3.31	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TRITICENE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TRITISTEROL	0	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AMMONIALYASE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
APIGENIN	101	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARABINOSE	0	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARGININE	14	Seed	4000.0	12000.0	-0.54	Duke, 1992 *
ARSENIC	2	Seed	not available	0.1	0.06	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Seed	4000.0	12000.0	-1.08	Duke, 1992 *
ASPARAGINE-SYNTHESASE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASPARTIC-ACID	3	Seed	5106.0	5957.0	-1.48	Duke, 1992 *
BENZALDEHYDE	24	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-AMYLASE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-AMYRIN	9	Seed	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
Antimelanogenic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antimelanomic	4	Duke, 1992 *
AntiMeniere's	1	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
Antimenopausal	4	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antimenorrhagic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimetastatic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antimigraine	6	Martindale's 29th
Antimitotic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antimitral-valve-prolapse	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiMorning-Sickness	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimorphinic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antimorphinistic	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiMS	3	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
AntiMSG-Sensitivity	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antimutagenic	11	Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Antimyelotoxic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antimyoatrophic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimyocarditic	3	Martindale's 29th
Antimyoclonic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antinauseant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.