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

Common Names
Brussels-Sprouts; Brussel-Sprout
How this plant is used
Food
Variety
gemmifera
Variety Author
DC

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
MOLYBDENUM 2 Leaf 0.9 -0.64 *
MOLYBDENUM 2 Stem 0.4 -0.67 *
MONTANYL-ALCOHOL 0 Leaf *
NEOGLUCOBRASSICIN 1 Plant Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
NIACIN 39 Leaf 6.0 64.0 -0.41 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
NONACOSAN-10-ONE 0 Leaf Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
NONACOSANE 2 Leaf Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
OCTACOSAN-1-OL 0 Leaf *
OLEIC-ACID 18 Leaf 190.0 1357.0 -0.48 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
OXALATE 0 Leaf 3600.0 25704.0 -0.03 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
P-COUMARIC-ACID 25 Leaf 12.0 -0.35 *
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Leaf 530.0 3784.0 -0.32 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PALMITOLEIC-ACID 2 Leaf 20.0 142.0 -0.49 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PANTOTHENIC-ACID 11 Leaf 3.1 22.0 -0.36 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PENTACOSAN-1-OL 0 Leaf *
PHENYLALANINE 7 Leaf 980.0 6997.0 -0.85 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PHOSPHORUS 4 Leaf 690.0 4927.0 -0.01 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PHYLLOQUINONE 5 Plant 1.5 2.60 *
PHYTOSTEROLS 2 Leaf 240.0 1710.0 -0.25 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
POTASSIUM 14 Leaf 3670.0 29343.0 -0.04 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
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 1 Martindale's 29th
Ergogenic 1 *
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 6 *
Estrogenic? 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Febrifuge 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fibrinolytic 1 *
Fistula-Preventive 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
FLavor 7 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide 9 *
Gastroprotective 1 *
Genotoxic 1 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor 1 *
Glutathionigenic 1 Martindale's 29th
Gonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Hematopoietic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Hemolytic 1 Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.