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
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Seed	0.0	0.2	-0.42	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-IONONE	13	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-TRITISTEROL	0	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETAINE	14	Root	not available	82.0	-0.36	Duke, 1992 *
BETAINE	14	Shoot	not available	1640.0	2.22	Duke, 1992 *
BIOTIN	4	Seed	not available	216.0	0.44	Duke, 1992 *
BORON	4	Seed	1.0	16.0	-0.38	Duke, 1992 *
CADMIUM	3	Seed	not available	0.3	-0.22	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Seed	3.0	4.0	-0.77	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Plant	900.0	10400.0	-0.34	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Seed	100.0	4100.0	-0.01	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPESTEROL-3-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAPRINIC-ACID	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Seed	not available	610000.0	0.34	Duke, 1992 *
CAROTENE	0	Plant	97.0	953.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
CATALASE	1	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CEPHALIN	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHLORINE	7	Plant	670.0	3400.0	-0.70	Duke, 1992 *
CHLORINE	7	Seed	300.0	1800.0	2.96	Duke, 1992 *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID	77	Seed	not available	5.0	-0.62	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.