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
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	Duke, 1992 *
Hypolipemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hypolipidemic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive	11	Duke, 1992 *
Hypouricemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
ICAM-1-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ileorelaxant	1	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
iNOS-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Inotropic	1	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
Interferonogenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).