Plant Brassica rapa (Brassicaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Turnip; Seven-Top Turnip; Rapini

How this plant is used

Food

Subspecies

subsp. rapa

Variety

rapa

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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
(+)-CYSTEINE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-S-METHYL-L-CYSTEINE-SULFOXIDE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
4ALPHA,7ALPHA,24-TRIMETHYL-5ALPHA-CHOLESTA-8,24-DIEN-3BETA-OL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALANINE	3	Root	350.0	4305.0	0.42	Duke, 1992 *
ALLANTOIC-ACID	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALLANTOIN	12	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALUMINUM	5	Root	2.0	10.0	-0.31	Duke, 1992 *
ARGININE	14	Root	240.0	2950.0	-0.39	Duke, 1992 *
ARSENIC	2	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Root	210.0	2580.0	0.83	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Root	7000.0	86000.0	0.53	Duke, 1992 *
ASPARTIC-ACID	3	Root	630.0	7750.0	-0.29	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Leaf	90.0	900.0	-0.59	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Root	50.0	500.0	-0.26	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
BORON	4	Root	2.0	20.0	-0.15	Duke, 1992 *
BRASSICASTEROL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BROMINE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CADMIUM	3	Root	0.0	0.1	-0.76	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Root	300.0	3690.0	-0.41	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
Tremorigenic	1	Martindale's 28th
Trichomonicide	1	Martindale's 29th
Tumor-Promoter	1	J. Agri. & Food Chemistry, 36: 1079.
Ubiquiot	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ulcerogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Uricosuric	3	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Urinary-Acidulant	1	Martindale's 29th
Urine-Acidifier	1	Martindale's 28th
Urine-Deodorant	1	Martindale's 29th
Uterorelaxant	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Vasodilator	7	Duke, 1992 *
VEGF-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vulnerary	3	Duke, 1992 *
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).