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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Brassica nigra (Brassicaceae)

Common Names
Black Mustard
How this plant is used
Food

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Leaf 29.0 475.0 0.93 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Seed Jim Duke's personal files.
CALCIUM 28 Leaf 1107.0 17867.0 -0.04 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Leaf 34100.0 502209.0 -0.87 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Seed 192000.0 207792.0 -1.25 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
CHLOROGENIC-ACID 77 Seed Jim Duke's personal files.
COPPER 12 Leaf 0.6 11.2 -0.45 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
CYSTINE 2 Leaf 370.0 5449.0 2.14 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
EO 0 Seed 7000.0 12000.0 -0.40 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
ERUCIC-ACID 2 Leaf 770.0 11340.0 0.97 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
FAT 0 Leaf 2220.0 46841.0 -0.19 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
FAT 0 Seed 282000.0 305195.0 0.21 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
FERULIC-ACID 61 Seed Jim Duke's personal files.
FIBER 15 Leaf 8000.0 117820.0 -0.54 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
FIBER 15 Seed 110000.0 119048.0 -0.12 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
GADOLEIC-ACID 0 Leaf 260.0 3829.0 0.08 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
GLUCONAPIN 1 Plant Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
GLUCONASTURTIIN 0 Plant Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
GLUCOPUTRANJIVIN 0 Seed Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
HISTIDINE 7 Leaf 450.0 6627.0 0.63 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Hypocholesterolemic 10 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypoglycemic 5 *
Hypolipidemic 2 *
Hypotensive 11 Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp.
Hypouricemic 1 *
Immunomodulator 5 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Immunostimulant 10 Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp.
Immunosuppressant 2 *
Insecticide 1 Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Insectifuge 6 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.
Insectiphile 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Insulinase-Inhibitor 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 157.
Insulinogenic 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
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).
Irritant 1 Merck 11th Edition
Juvabional 1 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Larvicide 1 *
Larvistat 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.