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Common Names
Green Gram; Mungbean
How this plant is used
Food
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QUINIC-ACID | 1 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes. |
| RAFFINOSE | 1 | Seed | not available | 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 | not available | not available | not available | 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 | not available | not available | not available | ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes. |
| ROBININ | 10 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Stitt, Paul. Why George should eat broccoli. |
| ROBININ | 10 | Sprout Seedling | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| RUTIN | 87 | Sprout Seedling | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| SALICYLATES | 7 | Seed | not available | 0.0 | -0.34 | Duke, 1992 * |
| 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 | not available | 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 | not available | not available | not available | 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 | Duke, 1992 * |
| SODIUM | 1 | Sprout Seedling | 45.0 | 782.0 | -0.04 | USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae) |
| STACHYOSE | 1 | Seed | not available | 25000.0 | 0.20 | ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes. |
| 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 |