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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
Interleukin-1-alpha-Inhibitor 1 *
Interleukin-6-mRNA-Inhibitor 1 *
Iodothyronine-Deiodinase-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Irritant 4 Merck 11th Edition
JNK-Inhibitor 1 *
Keratolytic 1 Martindale's 29th
Laxative 4 *
Laxative? 2 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-91.
Leukotriene-Inhibitor 1 *
Lipase-Inhibitor 2 *
Lipotropic 2 *
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 5 Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Lithogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Litholytic 2 Martindale's 29th
Lubricant 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Lyase-Inhibitor 1 *
MAO-Inhibitor 2 *
MDR-Inhibitor 1 Castro, A. F., Altenberg, G. A. 1997. Inhibition of Drug Transport by Genistein in Multidrug-Resistant Cell Expressing P-Glycoprotein. Biochem Pharmacol, 53(1): 89-93.
Memorigenic 1 *
Metal-Chelator 2 McEvily, A.J., Iyengar, R., and Gross, A.T. Inhibition of Polyphenol Oxidase by Phenolic Compounds. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.25.