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Plant Avena sativa (Poaceae)

Common Names
Oats
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
PHOSPHORUS 4 Plant 618.0 2810.0 -0.37 Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS 4 Seed 500.0 10200.0 1.28 Jim Duke's personal files.*
PHYLLOQUINONE 5 Seed not available 0.1 -0.05 Duke, 1992 *
PHYTATE 0 Seed 8970.0 10000.0 -0.31 Duke, 1992 *
PHYTIC-ACID 9 Bran not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PHYTIC-ACID 9 Hull Husk 5600.0 8700.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
PHYTOSTEROLS 2 Seed not available 580.0 -0.49 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
POTASSIUM 14 Plant 598.0 2720.0 -1.33 Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM 14 Seed 2200.0 8900.0 -0.32 Jim Duke's personal files.*
PROLINE 0 Root not available 2.4 -1.30 Duke, 1992 *
PROLINE 0 Shoot not available 1.3 -0.71 Duke, 1992 *
PROPANAL 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN 0 Plant 15840.0 72000.0 -0.83 Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN 0 Seed 74000.0 232000.0 -0.02 Jim Duke's personal files.*
PUTRESCINE 0 Leaf not available 1186.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
PYRIDOXINE 43 Plant 1.8 3.1 not available Jim Duke's personal files.*
PYRIDOXINE 43 Seed 0.2 2.4 -0.82 Jim Duke's personal files.*
QUERCETIN 176 Hay not available 310.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Plant 0.4 2.0 -0.66 Duke, 1992 *
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Seed 0.7 11.7 3.13 Jim Duke's personal files.*
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiaflatoxin 2 Duke, 1992 *
AntiAGE 2 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
Antiaggregant 10 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiaging 5 Duke, 1992 *
Antiakathisic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antialcoholic 6 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antialdosteronic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antialkali? 1 Martindale's 29th
Antialkalotic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiallergic 7 Duke, 1992 *
Antialopecic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antialzheimeran 8 Duke, 1992 *
Antialzheimeran? 1 Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Antiamblyopic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antianaphylactic 1 Meli, R., Autore, G., Di Carlo, G., Capasso, F. Inhibitory Action of Quercetin on Intestinal Transit in Mice. Phytotherapy Research 4(5): 201, 1990.
Antiandrogenic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antianemic 7 Duke, 1992 *
Antianginal 3 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiangiogenic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antianorectic 3 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.