Plant Vanilla planifolia (Orchidaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Vanilla; Bourbon Vanilla

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
ETHYL-VANILLIN	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL	76	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
FAT	0	Fruit	47000.0	212000.0	0.98	Duke, 1992 *
FERULIC-ACID	61	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Fruit	153000.0	263000.0	1.14	Duke, 1992 *
FORMIC-ACID	13	Fruit	not available	62.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
FRUCTOSE	8	Fruit	not available	7500.0	-0.82	Duke, 1992 *
FURFURAL	6	Fruit	not available	54.0	-0.71	Duke, 1992 *
FURFUROL	0	Fruit	not available	15.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-HEXALACTONE	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-NONALACTONE	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
GAMMA-OCTALACTONE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-UNDECALACTONE	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOSE	7	Fruit	not available	7500.0	-0.82	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
GLUCOVANILLIC-ACID	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOVANILLIN	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLUCOVANILLYL-ALCOHOL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GUAIACOL	18	Fruit	not available	19.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HENEICOSANE	0	Fruit	not available	23.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HENTRIACONT-1-ENE	0	Fruit	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
Anthelmintic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiacetylcholinesterase	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiacne	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiadenomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiaggregant	7	Phytotherapy Research, 4: 93.
Antialcoholic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiallergic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antialopecic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antialzheimeran?	1	Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Antianaphylactic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiandrogenic	4	Planta Medica, 56(6): 671, 1990.
Antianemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antianxiety	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiaphthic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiarachidonate	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarrhythmic	3	Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 407.
Antiarteriosclerotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarthritic	4	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiasthmatic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherosclerotic	4	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.