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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Brassica rapa (Brassicaceae)

Common Names
Turnip; Seven-Top Turnip; Rapini
How this plant is used
Food
Subspecies
subsp. rapa
Variety
rapa

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
LINOLEIC-ACID 27 Root 120.0 1475.0 -0.61 *
LINOLENIC-ACID 0 Root 400.0 4920.0 1.01 *
LYCOPENE 16 Root *
LYSINE 4 Root 360.0 4425.0 0.63 *
MAGNESIUM 65 Root 110.0 2000.0 -0.30 *
MANGANESE 14 Root 0.6 7.0 -0.46 *
MERCURY 1 Root 0.0 0.0 -0.48 *
METHIONINE 15 Root 110.0 1350.0 0.47 *
MOLYBDENUM 2 Root 0.1 1.0 -0.18 *
MUFA 13 Root 60.0 740.0 -0.65 *
NIACIN 39 Root 4.0 49.0 -0.04 *
NICKEL 3 Root 0.0 0.1 -1.11 *
NITROGEN 0 Root 1800.0 18000.0 -1.26 *
OLEIC-ACID 18 Root 60.0 740.0 -0.45 *
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Root 100.0 1230.0 -0.34 *
PALMITOLEIC-ACID 2 Root 10.0 120.0 -0.68 *
PANTOTHENIC-ACID 11 Root 2.0 25.0 1.09 *
PHENYLALANINE 7 Root 170.0 2090.0 -0.72 *
PHOSPHORUS 4 Root 270.0 5000.0 0.26 *
PHYLLOQUINONE 5 Root 0.0 -1.00 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Insulin-Sparing 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Insulinase-Inhibitor 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 157.
Insulinogenic 3 *
Insulinotonic 1 J. Agri. & Food Chemistry, 36: 1079.
Interferon-Synergist 1 *
Interferonogenic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Irritant 2 Merck 11th Edition
Keratolytic 2 Martindale's 28th
Laxative 4 *
Leptingenic 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Lipotropic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Lithogenic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Litholytic 1 *
Lubricant 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Memorigenic 1 *
Metastatic 1 Science News, 146: 421.
Monoamine-Precursor 3 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Mucogenic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Mucolytic 1 Martindale's 28th
Myorelaxant 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.