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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
ALLYL-GLUCOSINOLATE 0 Seed Jim Duke's personal files.
ALLYL-ISOTHIOCYANATE 16 Leaf 20.0 Jim Duke's personal files.
ALPHA-AMYLASE 0 Leaf Wealth of India.
ALPHA-LINOLENIC-ACID 15 Leaf 460.0 6150.0 -0.16 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Shoot 14.0 -0.44 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Shoot 3.6 -0.28 *
ALPHA-THUJENE 0 Shoot 18.0 -0.23 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL 32 Leaf 0.4 170.0 -0.55 *
ALUMINUM 5 Leaf 1.0 4350.0 3.89 *
ALUMINUM 5 Plant *
AMMONIA 0 Leaf 3800.0 11060.0 0.16 Jim Duke's personal files.
AMMONIA(NH3) 0 Leaf 3800.0 11060.0 1.00 *
ANILINE 0 Leaf 1.0 4.0 1.00 Jim Duke's personal files.
ANTHERAXANTHIN 1 Leaf Jim Duke's personal files.
ANTHOXANTHINS 0 Sprout Seedling Jim Duke's personal files.
ARGININE 14 Leaf 690.0 9225.0 -0.69 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ARSENIC 2 Leaf 0.0 0.0 -0.83 *
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Leaf 190.0 6774.0 0.18 *
ASH 0 Leaf 6000.0 98072.0 -0.37 *
ASPARTIC-ACID 3 Leaf 1190.0 15910.0 -0.70 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Hematopoietic 2 Merck 11th Edition
Hemolytic 1 Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Hemopoietic 1 *
Hemostat 3 *
Hemostatic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Hepatocarcinogenic 1 *
Hepatomagenic 1 Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Hepatoprotective 11 *
Hepatotoxic 2 *
Hepatotropic 2 *
Herbicide 4 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.
Histamine-Inhibitor 2 *
Histaminic 1 Martindale's 29th
HIV-RT-Inhibitor 2 Garcia, J., Morin,* C., Nyasse, B., Sondengam, B-L., Tchouankeu, J-C., and Tsamo, E. Complete Structural Assignments Of An Ergosterol Derivative From Entandrophragma utile. Journal of Natural Products, 54(1): 136-142, 1991.
Hormonal 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hydrocholerectic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypercholesterolemic 1 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Hyperglycemic 1 Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Hypertensive 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Hypnotic 1 Martindale's 29th