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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Fragaria spp (Rosaceae)

Common Names
Strawberry
How this plant is used
Food
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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
TRYPTOPHAN 29 Fruit 70.0 830.0 -0.03 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
VALINE 3 Fruit 180.0 2135.0 -0.48 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
VANILLIC-ACID 24 Fruit 3.0 25.0 -1.00 Jim Duke's personal files.
VIT-B-6 0 Fruit 0.6 7.0 -0.20 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
WATER 0 Fruit 870000.0 917000.0 0.64 *
ZINC 77 Fruit 1.1 17.0 -0.40 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiporphyric 1 Martindale's 28th
Antiprogestational 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiprolactin 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiproliferant 6 *
Antiprostaglandin 4 *
Antiprostanoid 1 *
Antiprostatadenomic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Antiprostatitic 7 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiprostatotic 1 *
Antiproteolytic 1 *
Antipruritic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Antipsoriac 4 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antipsychotic 2 Martindale's 29th
Antipurpuric 1 *
Antipyretic 5 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antiradicular 16 Planta Medica, 56(6): 695, 1990.
AntiRaynaud's 3 *
Antirenitic 1 Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Antiretardation 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiretinitic Optometry 1 *