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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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List of plant chemicals.
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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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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Anticancer (Colon) 2 *
Anticancer (Esophagus)? 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticancer (Forestomach) 2 *
Anticancer (Liver) 2 *
Anticancer (Lung) 1 *
Anticancer (Skin) 3 *
Anticanker 3 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticarcinogenic 3 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticarcinomic (Breast) 1 Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Anticardiospasmic 1 *
Anticariogenic 2 Muroi, H. and Kubo, I. 1993. Combination Effects of Antibacterial Compounds in Green Tea Flavor against Streptococcus mutans. J. Agric. Food Chem. 41: 1102-1105.
Anticarpal-Tunnel 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticataract 9 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticephalagic 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticervicaldysplasic 5 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
AntiCFS 3 *
Anticheilitic 4 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antichilblain 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antichoreic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.