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
STEARIC-ACID	8	Fruit	not available	39.0	-0.28	Duke, 1992 *
SUCROSE	14	Fruit	not available	350000.0	1.73	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
SUGARS	0	Fruit	71000.0	350000.0	0.56	Duke, 1992 *
SYRINGALDEHYDE	4	Fruit	not available	10.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SYRINGIC-ACID	6	Fruit	0.0	3000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
TETRACOSANE	0	Fruit	not available	13.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TETRADEC-1-ENE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-CINNAMIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-METHYL-CINNAMATE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
TRANS-VITISPIRANE	0	Fruit Essent. Oil	not available	0.5	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRICOS-1-ENE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRICOSANE	0	Fruit	not available	29.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRICOSENE	0	Fruit	not available	38.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TRITRIACONT-1-ENE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
UMBELLIFERONE	22	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIC-ACID	24	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIN	28	Fruit	13000.0	30000.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIN	28	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIN	28	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
Demulcent	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Dermal	1	Zebovitz, T. C. Ed. 1989. Part VII. Flavor and Fragrance Substances, in Keith L. H. and Walters, D.B., eds. Compendium of Safety Data Sheets for Research and Industrial Chemicals. VCH Publishers, New York. 3560-4253.
Dermatitigenic	4	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Detoxicant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Disinfectant	1	Martindale's 29th
Diuretic	3	Duke, 1992 *
DME-Inhibitor	1	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 134.
Emetic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Enterocontractant	1	J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Enterorelaxant	1	J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Estrogenic	1	Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Expectorant	5	Duke, 1992 *
Fatal	1	Martindale's 29th
FEMA	1	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Flatugenic	1	Singh, J., Gupta, K., and Arora, S.K. 1993. Changes in the anti-nutritional factors of developing seeds and pod walls of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum L.). Plant Foods for Human Nutrition. 46: 77-84, 1994.
FLavor	31	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide	21	Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Fungiphilic	1	J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2283.
Fungistat	3	Duke, 1992 *
Fungitoxic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.