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Plant Brassica oleracea (Brassicaceae)

Common Names
Kohlrabi
How this plant is used
Food
Variety
gongylodes
Variety Author
L.
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
STEARIC-ACID 8 Stem 10.0 110.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
TETRADECAN-1-OL 0 Stem not available 0.1 not available Duke, 1992 *
THIAMIN 31 Stem 0.5 5.5 -1.37 Duke, 1992 *
THIOPHEN-2-CARBOXYALDEHYDE 0 Stem not available 0.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
THIOPHEN-3-CARBOXYALDEHYDE 0 Stem not available 0.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
THREONINE 4 Stem 490.0 5445.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
TOLUENE 1 Stem not available 0.1 not available Duke, 1992 *
TRICOSANE 0 Stem not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRIMETHYL-PYRAZINE 0 Stem not available 0.1 not available Duke, 1992 *
TRYPTOPHAN 29 Stem 100.0 1110.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
VALINE 3 Stem 500.0 5555.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
VINYLPYRAZINE 0 Stem not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
VIT-B-6 0 Stem 1.5 17.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
WATER 0 Stem 910000.0 921000.0 0.62 Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Chemical Count Reference
Estrogenic 2 Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 227.1999.
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).
FLavor 13 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide 2 Duke, 1992 *
Gastroprotective 1 Duke, 1992 *
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Glutathionigenic 1 Martindale's 29th
Hemolytic 1 Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Hemopoietic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hemostat 2 Duke, 1992 *
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 5 Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotoxic 1 Duke, 1992 *
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.
Hypercholesterolemic 2 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Hypertensive 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypnotic 1 Martindale's 29th
Hypoammonemic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypoarginanemic 1 Martindale's 29th