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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Beta vulgaris (Chenopodiaceae)

Common Names
Beet; Beetroot; Sugar Beet; Garden Beet
How this plant is used
Food
Subspecies
subsp. vulgaris
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
L-AZETIDINE-2-CARBOXYLIC-ACID 1 Root Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
LEAD 0 Root 0.0 3.5 0.19 *
LEUCINE 2 Root 630.0 4968.0 0.36 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
LINOLEIC-ACID 27 Root 460.0 3628.0 0.19 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
LITHIUM 11 Root 0.4 0.6 *
LYSINE 4 Root 530.0 4180.0 0.41 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
MAGNESIUM 65 Root 130.0 4200.0 0.87 *
MALONIC-ACID 1 Root Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
MANGANESE 14 Root 3.0 90.0 0.53 *
MELILOTIC-ACID 1 Root List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
MERCURY 1 Root 0.0 0.0 -0.45 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
METHIONINE 15 Root 170.0 1341.0 0.45 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
MOLYBDENUM 2 Root 0.1 -0.46 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
MUFA 13 Root 270.0 2219.0 -0.04 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
NEOBETANIN 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
NEOBETANIN 0 Root 20.0 Alard, d., Wray, V., Grotjahn, L., Reznik, H., Strack, D. 1985. Neobetanin: Isolation and Identification from Beta vulgaris. Phytochemisty, 24(10): 2383-2385.
NIACIN 39 Leaf 4.0 68.0 -0.36 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
NIACIN 39 Root 2.0 32.0 -0.53 *
NICKEL 3 Root 0.0 2.5 0.24 *
NITROGEN 0 Root 2600.0 35830.0 0.97 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Hypocholesterolemic 14 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypoglycemic 10 Ivorra, M.D., Paya, M., and Villar, A. 1989. A Review of Natural Products and Plants as Potential Antidiabetic Drugs. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 27: 243-275, 1989.
Hypolipidemic 3 *
Hypotensive 11 Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp.
Hypouricemic 1 *
ICAM-1-Inhibitor 1 *
Immunomodulator 10 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Immunostimulant 10 *
Immunosuppressant 4 *
iNOS-Inhibitor 2 *
Inotropic 2 *
Insectifuge 9 Tunon, H., Thorsell, W., and Bohlin, L. 1993. Mosquito Repelling Activity of Compounds Occurring in Achillea millefolium L. (Asteraceae). Economic Botany 48(2): 111-120, 1994.
Insectifuge? 1 Martindale's 28th
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 4 *
Insulinotonic 1 J. Agri. & Food Chemistry, 36: 1079.
Interferon-Synergist 1 *
Interferonogenic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Iodothyronine-Deiodinase-Inhibitor 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.