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

Common Names

Green Gram; Mungbean

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
IODINE	12	Seed	0.0	0.0	-0.27	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
IRON	6	Seed	58.0	84.0	-0.31	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
IRON	6	Sprout Seedling	5.6	132.0	0.18	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ISOLEUCINE	3	Seed	10080.0	11083.0	0.08	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ISOLEUCINE	3	Sprout Seedling	1320.0	13866.0	-0.27	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ISOQUERCITRIN	22	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL	75	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL-7-O-RHAAMNOSIDE	0	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
KIEVITONE	3	Leaf Diffusate	not available	24.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
KILOCALORIES	0	Seed	3340.0	3815.0	-0.82	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
KILOCALORIES	0	Sprout Seedling	not available	3151.0	-0.53	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
LEAD	0	Seed	not available	1.6	-0.25	Duke, 1992 *
LEUCINE	2	Seed	18470.0	20308.0	0.31	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
LEUCINE	2	Sprout Seedling	1750.0	18382.0	-0.91	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Seed	3570.0	4890.0	-0.88	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Sprout Seedling	420.0	4412.0	-0.96	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
LINOLENIC-ACID	0	Seed	1872.0	2160.0	-0.54	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
LYSINE	4	Seed	16640.0	18296.0	0.84	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
LYSINE	4	Sprout Seedling	1666.0	17437.0	-1.38	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
MAGNESIUM	65	Seed	1777.0	2203.0	-0.29	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
ER-Beta-Binder	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ergogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Essential	8	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Estrogen-Agonist	3	Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 139.1999.
Estrogenic	10	Duke, 1992 *
Estrogenic?	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Febrifuge	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fibrinolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Fistula-Preventive	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Flatugenic	3	Singh, J., Gupta, K., and Arora, S.K. 1993. Changes in the anti-nutritional factors of developing seeds and pod walls of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum L.). Plant Foods for Human Nutrition. 46: 77-84, 1994.
Flatulent	3	Duke, 1992 *
FLavor	6	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide	14	Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Fungistat	3	Duke, 1992 *
Gastroprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Glutathionigenic	1	Martindale's 29th
Goitrogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Gonadotrophic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Hematopoietic	2	Merck 11th Edition