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
ANISYL-ETHYL-ETHER	0	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.
ANISYLACETATE	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
ASH	0	Fruit	45000.0	97000.0	1.04	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
BENZALDEHYDE	24	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZOIC-ACID	20	Fruit	not available	38.0	-0.61	Duke, 1992 *
BENZOIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZOTHIAZOLE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZYL-ALCOHOL	9	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BIS-(4-(BETA-D-GLUCOSYL)-BENZYL)-2-(1-METHYL-PROPYL)-TARTRATE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Fruit	not available	19000.0	3.49	CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
CALCIUM-OXALATE	4	Plant	not available	not available	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
CAPRINIC-ACID-ESTER	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
CAPROIC-ACID	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATE	0	Fruit	305000.0	628000.0	-0.95	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Fruit	305000.0	628000.0	-0.83	Duke, 1992 *
CATECHIN	43	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.
CATECHOL	22	Fruit	not available	29.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMALDEHYDE	60	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMIC-ACID-ETHYL-ESTER	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CINNAMIC-ALCOHOL	3	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.

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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
Antisyncopic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antithiamin	1	Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, 69.
Antithrombic	1	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Antithromboxane	1	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jul-87.
Antithyreotropic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
AntiTNF	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitoxoplasmotic	1	Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill Livinston, Edinburgh.
Antitubercular	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antituberculic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor	13	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Breast)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Colon)	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Forestomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (GI)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Kidney)	1	Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill Livinston, Edinburgh.
Antitumor (Liver)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Mouth)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Pancreas)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Prostate)	2	Duke, 1992 *