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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
(+)-7-ISOJASMONIC-ACID 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
(-)-JASMONIC-ACID 2 Seed *
2,6-DIAMINOPURINE 0 Root ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
3,5,7,4'-TETRAHYDROXYFLAVONE 0 Fruit 0.0 6.0 *
5-HYDROXYURACIL 0 Root ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
7,3',4'-TRIHYDROXYFLAVONE 0 Fruit 0.0 22.0 *
7,4'-DIHYDROXYFLAVONE 0 Fruit 0.0 4.0 *
ALANINE 3 Seed 2280.0 12000.0 0.39 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ARGININE 14 Seed 4630.0 24370.0 -0.01 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ARSENIC 2 Fruit 0.2 1.4 1.26 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Fruit 120.0 820.0 -0.23 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Seed 330.0 1735.0 0.70 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ASH 0 Fruit 8000.0 54800.0 -0.05 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
ASH 0 Seed 11000.0 57900.0 0.30 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ASPARAGINE 2 Leaf ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
ASPARTIC-ACID 3 Seed 6310.0 33210.0 0.94 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Fruit 0.1 0.6 -0.15 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Seed 2.1 11.0 0.26 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
BETA-CYANOALANINE 0 Seed List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Seed 950.0 4500.0 1.10 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Hypocholesterolemic 17 Singleton, V.L. 1981. Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants: Phenolic Substances of Plant Origin Common in Foods. Advances in Food Research 27: 149-217.
Hypoglycemic 6 *
Hypolipemic 1 *
Hypolipidemic 3 *
Hypotensive 11 *
Hypouricemic 1 *
ICAM-1-Inhibitor 1 *
Ileorelaxant 1 *
Immunomodulator 5 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Immunostimulant 6 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Immunosuppressant 1 *
iNOS-Inhibitor 1 *
Inotropic 1 *
Insecticide 1 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insectifuge 7 Tunon, H., Thorsell, W., and Bohlin, L. 1993. Mosquito Repelling Activity of Compounds Occurring in Achillea millefolium L. (Asteraceae). Economic Botany 48(2): 111-120, 1994.
Insulinase-Inhibitor 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 157.
Insulinogenic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.
Insulinotonic 1 J. Agri. & Food Chemistry, 36: 1079.
Interferon-Synergist 1 *
Interferonogenic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).