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Plant Yucca baccata (Agavaceae)

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Common name(s)
Banana Yucca, Blue Yucca, Spanish Bayonet, Yucca
How used
Medicinal

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# Activity Chemical Name Part Low PPM High PPM StdDev *Reference
5 ALUMINUM Root 11.0 51.0 -0.29 *
112 ASCORBIC-ACID Root 27.0 131.0 -0.57 *
0 ASH Root 13520.0 65000.0 -0.07 *
53 BETA-CAROTENE Root -- -- -- *
28 CALCIUM Root 1718.0 8260.0 0.09 *
0 CARBOHYDRATES Root 170144.0 818000.0 -0.15 *
24 CHROMIUM Root -- -- -- *
2 COBALT Root 0.3 1.2 -0.52 *
0 EO Root 208.0 2000.0 -0.56 *
0 FAT Seed -- 272000.0 0.03 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
0 FAT Root 4784.0 23000.0 0.00 *
15 FIBER Root -- 112000.0 0.53 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
0 FIBER(CRUDE) Root -- 112000.0 0.02 *
0 FIBER(DIETARY) Root -- 386000.0 -0.14 *
6 IRON Root 1.5 7.3 -0.43 *
0 KILOCALORIES Root -- 2820.0 -1.20 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
65 MAGNESIUM Root 106.0 510.0 -1.09 *
14 MANGANESE Root 0.1 0.6 -0.54 *
39 NIACIN Root -- 0.0 -1.46 *
4 PHOSPHORUS Root 169.0 810.0 -0.48 *
*Unless otherwise noted all references are to Duke, James A. 1992. Handbook of phytochemical constituents of GRAS herbs and other economic plants. Boca Raton, FL. CRC Press.