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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Vigna radiata (Fabaceae)

Common Names
Green Gram; Mungbean
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
QUINIC-ACID 1 Seed ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
RAFFINOSE 1 Seed 8000.0 0.40 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
RHAMNOSE 0 Seed ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Seed 2.1 2.8 -0.28 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Sprout Seedling 1.0 15.0 0.22 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
RIBOSE 0 Seed ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
ROBININ 10 Plant Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli.
ROBININ 10 Sprout Seedling *
RUTIN 87 Sprout Seedling *
SALICYLATES 7 Seed 0.0 -0.34 *
SAPONINS 5 Seed 500.0 6000.0 -0.42 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
SECOISOLARICIRESINOL 3 Seed 8.0 1.41 H. Adlercreutz, pers. comm.
SERINE 1 Seed 11760.0 12930.0 0.45 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
SERINE 1 Sprout Seedling 330.0 3466.0 -1.26 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
SFA 0 Seed 3480.0 3826.0 -0.54 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
SFA 0 Sprout Seedling 460.0 4831.0 0.00 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
SHIKIMIC-ACID 14 Seed ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
SODIUM 1 Seed 129.0 311.0 -0.22 *
SODIUM 1 Sprout Seedling 45.0 782.0 -0.04 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
STACHYOSE 1 Seed 25000.0 0.20 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Androgenic 1 *
Androgenic? 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anemiagenic 2 *
Angiogenic 1 *
Angiotensin-Receptor-Blocker 3 *
Anorexic 2 Forest H. Nielsen, USDA, Grand Forks, various publications.
Antiacetylcholinesterase 1 *
Antiacid 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiacne 6 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiacrodermatitic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiacrodynic 1 *
AntiADD 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiadenomic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Antiadhesive 1 *
Antiadrenalinic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiaflatoxin 3 *
AntiAGE 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antiaggregant 10 Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp.
Antiaging 3 *
Antiakathisic 1 Martindale's 29th