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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Vicia faba (Fabaceae)

Common Names
Broadbean; Faba Bean; Habas
How this plant is used
Food

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
DOPA-GLUCOSIDE 0 Shoot ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
EPICATECHIN 40 Testa *
EPIGALLOCATECHIN 6 Testa *
FABATIN 4 Seed *
FAT 0 Fruit 1000.0 6850.0 -0.59 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
FAT 0 Seed 6000.0 31580.0 -1.23 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
FAVIN 0 Seed Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
FERULIC-ACID 61 Plant *
FIBER 15 Fruit 20000.0 137000.0 -0.04 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
FIBER 15 Seed 22000.0 115780.0 -0.15 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
FR 0 Plant *
FUMARIC-ACID 7 Root List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
GALLOCATECHIN-(4-ALPHA-8)-EPICATECHIN 0 Testa *
GALLOCATECHIN-(4-{ALPHA},8)-CATECHIN 0 Testa *
GALLOCATECHIN-(4ALPHA->8)-EPIGALLOCATECHIN 1 Testa *
GAMMA-HYDROXYCITRULLIN 0 Seed List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
GENISTEIN 81 Seed 0.0 19.9 -0.30 *
GERALDONE 0 Fruit 0.0 6.0 *
GIBBERELLIN-A-53 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
GLUTAMIC-ACID 8 Seed 8550.0 45000.0 0.14 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
11B-HSD-Inhibitor 1 *
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor 5 *
5-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 1 *
Abortifacient 1 Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
Acaricide 1 *
Acarifuge 1 *
ACE-Inhibitor 2 *
Acidulant 2 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Acnegenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Adjuvant 1 Merck 11th Edition
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor 5 *
Allelochemic 1 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.
Allelopathic 2 Holappa, L.D., and Blum*, U. 1991. Effects of Exogenously Applied Ferulic Acid, a Potential Allelopathic Compound, on Leaf Growth, Water Utilization, and Endogenous Abscisic Acid Levels of Tomato, Cucumber, and Bean. J. of Chemical Ecology, 17(5): 865.
Allergenic 6 *
Alpha-Amylase-Inhibitor 1 *
Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor 2 *
Anabolic 1 *
Analgesic 7 *
Androgenic 1 *
Androgenic? 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).