Plant Avena sativa (Poaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

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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
Tyrosinase-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Tyrosine-Kinase-Inhibitor	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.
Ubiquiot	4	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ulcerogenic	3	HerbalGram No. 20, page 9.
Uricogenic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Uricosuric	5	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Urinary-Acidulant	1	Martindale's 29th
Urine-Acidifier	1	Martindale's 28th
Urine-Deodorant	1	Martindale's 29th
Uterorelaxant	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Uterosedative	2	Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990.
Varroacide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vasoconstrictor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vasodilator	8	Duke, 1992 *
VEGF-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Verrucolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vulnerary	4	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor	4	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).