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

Common Names
Kale; Curly Kale; Kitchen Kale; Scotch Kale
How this plant is used
Food
Variety
acephala
Variety Author
DC

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
KILOCALORIES 0 Leaf 500.0 3220.0 0.33 *
LAURIC-ACID 7 Leaf 20.0 130.0 -1.25 *
LEUCINE 2 Leaf 2310.0 14865.0 -0.25 *
LINOLEIC-ACID 27 Leaf 1380.0 8880.0 0.12 *
LINOLENIC-ACID 0 Leaf 1800.0 11585.0 -0.32 *
LYSINE 4 Leaf 1970.0 12675.0 -0.04 *
MAGNESIUM 65 Leaf 340.0 2190.0 -0.75 *
MALIC-ACID 15 Leaf *
MANGANESE 14 Leaf 8.0 50.0 -0.38 *
METHIONINE 15 Leaf 320.0 2060.0 -0.85 *
METHYL-AMINE 1 Leaf 16.6 -0.59 *
MUFA 13 Leaf 520.0 3345.0 -0.40 *
MYRISTIC-ACID 6 Leaf 30.0 190.0 -0.61 *
N-BUTYL-AMINE 0 Leaf 0.5 *
N-METHYL-PHENETHYLAMINE 0 Leaf 2.0 -0.96 *
N-PENTYL-AMINE 0 Leaf 0.4 -0.60 *
NIACIN 39 Leaf 10.0 65.0 -0.40 *
OLEIC-ACID 18 Leaf 490.0 3155.0 -0.22 *
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Leaf 760.0 4890.0 -0.30 *
PALMITOLEIC-ACID 2 Leaf 10.0 65.0 -0.62 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiflu 1 Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Antifuruncular 1 Martindale's 28th
Antigallstone 1 *
Antigastric 1 Rastitel'nye Resursy, 21: 85.
Antigastritic 3 Martindale's 29th
Antigastrotic 1 *
Antigingivitic 3 *
Antiglaucomic 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiglossitic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antigonadotropic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antigranular 1 *
AntiGTF 1 *
Antihangover 4 *
Antiheartburn 1 *
Antihemorrhagic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihepatitic 2 Martindale's 29th
Antihepatocarcinogenic 1 Akao, M. and Kuroda, K. 1990. Inhibitory Effect of Fumaric Acid on Hepatocarcinogenesis by Thioacetamide in Mice. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(7): 2012-2014, 1990.
Antihepatotic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihepatotoxic 2 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiherpetic 5 *