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Common Names
Cabbage; Red Cabbage; White Cabbage
How this plant is used
Food
Variety
capitata
Variety Author
L.
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BARIUM | 0 | Leaf | 1.0 | 87.0 | -0.81 | Duke, 1992 * |
| BENZOPHENONE | 1 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BENZYL-AMINE | 0 | Leaf | 2.8 | 3.3 | -0.90 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| BENZYL-GLUCOSINOLATE | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BENZYL-ISOTHIOCYANATE | 20 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-AMYLASE | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Wealth of India. |
| BETA-CAROTENE | 53 | Leaf | 0.6 | 12.0 | -1.09 | Duke, 1992 * |
| BETA-SITOSTEROL | 47 | Leaf | 70.0 | 700.0 | -0.70 | Duke, 1992 * |
| BORON | 4 | Leaf | 1.0 | 145.0 | 2.28 | Duke, 1992 * |
| BRASSININ | 3 | Leaf | not available | 1.3 | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| BROMINE | 0 | Leaf | 0.2 | 37.0 | -0.22 | ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980 |
| BUTANEDIONE | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Wealth of India. |
| BUTENYL-CYANIDE | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BUTYL-CYANIDE | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BUTYL-GLUCOSINOLATE | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| BUTYL-GLUCOSINOLATE | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| CADMIUM | 3 | Leaf | 0.0 | 0.4 | -0.70 | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAFFEIC-ACID | 102 | Leaf | 0.5 | 77.0 | -0.71 | Duke, 1992 * |
| CAFFEIC-ACID-4-O-BETA-GLUCOSIDE | 0 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Jim Duke's personal files. |
| CALCIUM | 28 | Leaf | 290.0 | 19500.0 | 0.07 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Essential | 8 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Estrogenic | 5 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Expectorant | 1 | Yamamoto, A., Umemori, S., and Muranishi, S. 1993. Absorption Enhancement of Intrapulmonary Administered Insulin by Various Absorption Enhancers and Protease Inhibitors in Rats. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 46: 14-18, 1994. |
| Fatal | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Febrifuge | 1 | Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp. |
| Fibrinolytic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Fistula-Preventive | 1 | Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf). |
| Flatulent | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| FLavor | 14 | Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry |
| Fungicide | 19 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Fungistat | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Gastroprotective | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Gastrosedative | 1 | Merck 11th Edition |
| Gastrostimulant | 1 | Martindale's 28th |
| Genotoxic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Glutathione-Depleting | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Glutathionigenic | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Goitrogenic | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Gonadotrophic | 1 | Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990. |