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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Brassica oleracea var. capitata l. (Brassicaceae)

Common Names
Cabbage; Red Cabbage; White Cabbage
How this plant is used
Food
Variety
capitata
Variety Author
L.

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
CAMPESTEROL 2 Leaf 20.0 200.0 0.27 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Leaf 53700.0 717969.0 0.84 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
CARVONE 19 Leaf *
CARVONE 19 Plant *
CHLORINE 7 Leaf 120.0 -0.64 Wealth of India.
CHLOROGENIC-ACID 77 Leaf *
CHLOROGENIC-ACID 77 Plant *
CHOLINE 20 Leaf 1200.0 -0.42 Wealth of India.
CHROMIUM 24 Leaf 0.0 8.7 0.10 *
CIS-HEXEN-1-OL 0 Leaf Wealth of India.
CITRIC-ACID 23 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
COBALT 2 Leaf 0.0 2.9 -0.28 *
COPPER 12 Leaf 0.3 87.0 1.63 *
CROCETIN 10 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
CYANIDIN-3,5-DIGLUCOSIDE 0 Sprout Seedling 229.0 *
CYANIDIN-3-(DI-P-COUMAROYL)-SOPHOROSIDE-5-GLUCOSIDE 0 Sprout Seedling 229.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
CYANIDIN-3-(DIFERULYL)-SOPHOROSIDE-5-GLUCOSIDE 0 Sprout Seedling 214.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
CYANIDIN-3-(DISINAPYL)-SOPHOROSIDE-5-GLUCOSIDE 0 Sprout Seedling 257.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
CYANIDIN-3-(P-COUMAROYL)-SOPHOROSIDE-5-GLUCOSIDE 0 Sprout Seedling 200.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
CYANIDIN-3-FERULYL-SOPHOROSIDE-5-GLUCOSIDE 0 Sprout Seedling 243.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Deodorant 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Depressant 1 Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
Dermatitigenic 2 *
Detoxicant 2 *
Detoxicant (Alcohol) 1 *
Diaphoretic 1 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Diaphoretic? 3 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Differentiator 1 *
Disinfectant 1 Martindale's 29th
Diuretic 10 *
DNA-Active 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
DNA-Protective 2 *
Dye 1 Merck 11th Edition
Embryotoxic 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Emetic 2 *
Encephalopathic 1 Martindale's 29th
Energizer 1 *
Enterorelaxant 1 J. Aromatherapy 4: 22.
Ergogenic 1 *
Erythrocytogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.