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

Common Names

Broadbean; Faba Bean; Habas

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
DOPA-GLUCOSIDE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
EPICATECHIN	40	Testa	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EPIGALLOCATECHIN	6	Testa	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FABATIN	4	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
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	not available	not available	not available	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	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
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	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FUMARIC-ACID	7	Root	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.
GALLOCATECHIN-(4-ALPHA-8)-EPICATECHIN	0	Testa	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALLOCATECHIN-(4-{ALPHA},8)-CATECHIN	0	Testa	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GALLOCATECHIN-(4ALPHA->8)-EPIGALLOCATECHIN	1	Testa	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GAMMA-HYDROXYCITRULLIN	0	Seed	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.
GENISTEIN	81	Seed	0.0	19.9	-0.30	Duke, 1992 *
GERALDONE	0	Fruit	0.0	6.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GIBBERELLIN-A-53	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	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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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
Antithyrotoxic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antitic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antitremor	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antitubercular	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor	10	Simon, P.W. Carrots and Other Horticultural Crops as a Source of Provitamin A Carotenes. HortScience, 25(12): 1495, 1990.
Antitumor (Breast)	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Cervix)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (CNS)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Colon)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Forestomach)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Gastric)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (GI)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Liver)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Lung)	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Ovary)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Prostate)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Skin)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Stomach)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor-Promoter	4	Cancer Research, 48: 5941.
Antitussive	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.