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Common Names
Cowpea; Black-eyed Pea; Crowder Pea; Southern Pea
How this plant is used
Food
Subspecies
unguiculata
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BETA-AMYLASE | 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. |
| BETA-CAROTENE | 53 | Seed | 0.3 | 21.9 | 0.94 | USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae) |
| BETA-CAROTENE | 53 | Shoot | 0.7 | 6.9 | -0.69 | USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae) |
| BORON | 4 | Seed | 3.0 | 60.0 | 1.70 | Duke, 1992 * |
| CALCIUM | 28 | Seed | 253.0 | 14400.0 | 1.88 | Duke, 1992 * |
| CALCIUM | 28 | Shoot | 630.0 | 6164.0 | -0.63 | USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae) |
| CARBOHYDRATES | 0 | Seed | 218000.0 | 681771.0 | 0.63 | USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae) |
| CARBOHYDRATES | 0 | Shoot | 48200.0 | 471624.0 | -0.69 | USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae) |
| CERIUM | 0 | Seed | 0.0 | 0.1 | -0.78 | Duke, 1992 * |
| CESIUM | 0 | Seed | 0.0 | 0.2 | -0.12 | Duke, 1992 * |
| CHLORINE | 7 | Seed | not available | 100.0 | -0.53 | ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes. |
| CHOLINE | 20 | Seed | not available | 2020.0 | 0.33 | ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes. |
| CHROMIUM | 24 | Seed | 0.0 | 3.6 | -0.16 | Duke, 1992 * |
| COBALT | 2 | Seed | 0.0 | 1.2 | -0.15 | Duke, 1992 * |
| COPPER | 12 | Seed | 1.3 | 12.0 | -0.26 | Duke, 1992 * |
| COUMESTROL | 13 | Seed | not available | 0.0 | -0.52 | H. Adlercreutz, pers. comm. |
| COUMESTROL | 13 | Stem | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CYCLOARTENOL | 7 | Seed | not available | 26.0 | -1.00 | Noorwala, M., Mohammad, F. V., Ahmad, V. U. 1995. A New Monodesmosidic Triterpenoid Saponin From the Seeds of Vigna unguiculata subsp. unguiculata. J Nat Prod, 58(7): 1070-1074. |
| CYSTINE | 2 | Seed | 440.0 | 2953.0 | -0.14 | USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae) |
| DAIDZEIN | 32 | Seed | 0.3 | 57.0 | -0.21 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Hypnotic | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Hypoammonemic | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Hypoarginanemic | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Hypocalcemic | 1 | Merck 11th Edition |
| Hypocholesterolemic | 17 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Hypoglycemic | 8 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 158. |
| Hypolipidemic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hypotensive | 12 | Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp. |
| Hypotriglyceridemic | 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 |
| Hypouricemic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Ileorelaxant | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Immunomodulator | 7 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189. |
| Immunostimulant | 8 | Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp. |
| Immunosuppressant | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Insectifuge | 4 | Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990. |
| Insulin-Sparing | 1 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Insulinase-Inhibitor | 1 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 157. |
| Insulinogenic | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Insulinotonic | 1 | J. Agri. & Food Chemistry, 36: 1079. |
| Interferon-Synergist | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |