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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
PUFA 4 Fruit 1860.0 22064.0 0.74 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
QUERCETIN 176 Leaf *
QUERCETIN-3-BETA-GLUCURONIDE 0 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
QUERCETIN-3-BETA-MONOGLUCOSIDE 0 Fruit *
QUERCITRIN 44 Leaf List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Fruit 0.7 8.0 0.64 *
RUBIDIUM 0 Fruit 0.2 6.5 -0.94 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
SALICYLATES 7 Fruit 0.0 -0.34 *
SALICYLIC-ACID 34 Fruit Jim Duke's personal files.
SELENIUM 60 Fruit 0.0 -0.39 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
SERINE 1 Fruit 230.0 2728.0 -0.32 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
SFA 0 Fruit 200.0 2372.0 -0.33 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
SILICON 4 Fruit 10.0 270.0 0.27 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
SODIUM 1 Fruit 8.0 106.0 -0.17 *
STEARIC-ACID 8 Fruit 40.0 475.0 -0.25 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
STIGMASTEROL 12 Fruit Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
SULFUR 14 Fruit 77.0 1270.0 -0.10 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
TANNIN 35 Leaf *
THIAMIN 31 Fruit 0.2 4.0 -0.17 *
THREONINE 4 Fruit 190.0 2254.0 -0.32 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiretinopathic 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
Antiretinotic 2 *
Antirheumatalgic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antirheumatic 9 Grenand, P., Moretti, C., and Jacquemin, H. 1987. Pharmacopees Traditionnelles en Guyane. l'ORSTROM, Paris. 569 pp.
Antirheumatitic? 1 Martindale's 29th
Antirhinitic 1 *
Antisarcomic 1 *
Antischizophrenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antisclerodermic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiscoliotic 1 *
Antiscorbutic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antiscotomic 1 *
Antiseborrheic 5 *
Antiseptic 22 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiserotonin 1 *
Antishingles 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antishock 2 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antisickling 5 Ekeke, G.I. and Shode, F.O. 1988. Phenylalanine is the Predominant Antisickling Agent in Cajanus cajan Seed Extract. Planta Medica 56(1): 41, 1990.
Antisilicotic 1 Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Antispare-Tire 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