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
DIHYDROERGOSTEROL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ERGOSTEROL	5	Seed	not available	12.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ESTERASE	0	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ETHYL-BETA-D-FRUCTOFURANOSIDE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Plant	10000.0	30000.0	-0.32	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	8000.0	39000.0	-1.19	Duke, 1992 *
FERULIC-ACID	61	Seed	15.0	32.0	-0.39	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Plant	23300.0	421000.0	1.47	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Seed	3000.0	62000.0	-0.57	Duke, 1992 *
FOLACIN	15	Seed	0.0	0.9	-0.70	Duke, 1992 *
FRUCTOSE	8	Seed	not available	600.0	-0.81	Duke, 1992 *
FRUCTOSYLRAFFINOSE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GADUSEN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-DIHYDROSITOSTEROLFERULIC-ACID-ESTER	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-TOCOPHEROL	14	Oil	39.0	527.0	0.59	Duke, 1992 *
GENTISIC-ACID	8	Seed	2.0	4.0	-1.27	Duke, 1992 *
GIBBERELLINS	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLIADIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLOBULIN	0	Seed	60000.0	100000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCODIFRUCTOSE	0	Seed	not available	4100.0	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
Tumor-Promoter	1	J. Agri. & Food Chemistry, 36: 1079.
Tumorigenic	2	Jim Duke's personal files.
Tyrosinase-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
Tyrosine-Kinase-Inhibitor	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.
Ubiquiot	7	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ulcerogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Uricogenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Uricosuric	3	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Urinary-Acidulant	1	Martindale's 29th
Urine-Acidifier	1	Martindale's 28th
Urine-Deodorant	1	Martindale's 29th
Uterorelaxant	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Uterosedative	1	Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990.
Uterotrophic	1	Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 227.1999.
Varroacide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vasodilator	12	Duke, 1992 *
Vasopressor	1	Duke, 1992 *
VEGF-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Vulnerary	6	Duke, 1992 *
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor	4	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).