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Common Names
Chives
How this plant is used
Food
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FIBER | 15 | Leaf | 7000.0 | 137500.0 | -0.30 | Duke, 1992 * |
| FOLATE | 0 | Leaf | 1.0 | 11.0 | 1.52 | USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae) |
| FUMARIC-ACID | 7 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| GALACTOSE | 1 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986. |
| GAMMA-GLUTAMYL-PEPTIDASE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986. |
| GAMMA-GLUTAMYL-PEPTIDE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986. |
| GAMMA-GLUTAMYL-S-ALLYLCYSTEINE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991. |
| GAMMA-GLUTAMYL-TRIPEPTIDE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986. |
| GAMMA-L-GLUTAMYL-S-(PROP-1-ENYL)-L-CYSTEINE | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Wealth of India. |
| GAMMA-L-GLUTAMYL-S-PROPYL-L-CYSTEINE | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Wealth of India. |
| GLUCOSE | 7 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986. |
| GLUTAMIC-ACID | 8 | Leaf | 5790.0 | 72400.0 | 1.86 | USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae) |
| GLYCINE | 12 | Leaf | 1390.0 | 17375.0 | 1.85 | USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae) |
| HISTIDINE | 7 | Leaf | 480.0 | 6090.0 | 0.36 | USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae) |
| IRON | 6 | Leaf | 8.0 | 200.0 | -0.41 | Duke, 1992 * |
| ISOLEUCINE | 3 | Leaf | 1190.0 | 14875.0 | 0.72 | USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae) |
| ISORHAMNETIN-3-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Wealth of India. |
| ISORHAMNETIN-GLYCOSIDE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986. |
| KAEMPFEROL | 75 | Leaf | 16.0 | 55.0 | -0.48 | Duke, 1992 * |
| KAEMPFEROL-3-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Wealth of India. |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Antifertility | 2 | Kumar, P., Dixit*, V.P., and Khanna, P. Antifertility Studies of Kaempferol: Isolation and Identification from Tissue Culture of some Medicinally Important Plant Species. Plantes medicinales et phytotherapie, 23: 193-201, 1989. |
| Antifibrinolytic | 2 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53. |
| Antifibromyalgic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antifibrosarcomic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antifibrotic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiflu | 2 | Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207. |
| Antigallstone | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antigastric | 1 | Rastitel'nye Resursy, 21: 85. |
| Antigastritic | 3 | Martindale's 29th |
| Antigastrotic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antigiardial | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antigingivitic | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiglaucomic | 2 | Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp. |
| Antiglossitic | 1 | Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp. |
| Antigonadotropic | 2 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| Antigranular | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| AntiGTF | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antihangover | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antiheartburn | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Antihemolytic | 1 | Ohnishi, M., Morishita, H., Iwahashi, H., Toda, S., Shirataki, Y., Kimura, M., and Kido, R. 1993. Inhibitory Effects of Chlorogenic Acids on Linoleic Acid Peroxidation and Haemolysis. Phytochemistry. 36(3): 579-583. 1994. |