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
PYRIDOXINE	43	Seed	2.6	13.0	1.67	Duke, 1992 *
PYROGALLOL-OXIDASE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN	176	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RAFFINOSE	1	Seed	not available	3300.0	-0.68	Duke, 1992 *
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Plant	11.0	40.0	1.99	Duke, 1992 *
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Seed	0.7	8.0	1.72	Duke, 1992 *
RIBONUCLEASE	2	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RIBULOSE-DIPHOSPHATE-CARBOXYLASE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SALICYLIC-ACID	34	Seed	3.0	4.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
SCHAFTOSIDE	1	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SERINE	1	Seed	1000.0	7567.0	-0.58	Duke, 1992 *
SINAPIC-ACID	9	Seed	14.0	15.0	-0.58	Duke, 1992 *
SINAPOYL-8-D-GALACTOSYL-6-C-ARABINOSYL-APIGENIN	0	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SINAPOYL-ISOSCHAFTOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SINAPOYL-VICENIN-1	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM	1	Plant	200.0	3000.0	-0.14	Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM	1	Seed	0.0	2200.0	2.78	Duke, 1992 *
SP	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STACHYOSE	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STARCH	5	Seed	542000.0	800000.0	1.98	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
Antiarrhythmic	8	Merck 11th Edition
Antiarteriosclerotic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarthritic	15	Duke, 1992 *
Antiasthmatic	7	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiataxic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiatherogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherosclerotic	10	Duke, 1992 *
Antiautistic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antibackache	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antibacterial	18	Recio, M. C., Rios, J. L., and Villar, A., A review of some antimicrobial compounds isolated from medicinal plants reported in the literature 1978-1988, Phytotherapy Research, 3(4), 1989, 117-125.
Antiberiberi	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibiotic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
AntiBPH	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibronchitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer	7	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Cervix)	1	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 (Forestomach)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Liver)	3	Duke, 1992 *