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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Fragaria spp (Rosaceae)

Common Names
Strawberry
How this plant is used
Food
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
(+)-ABSCISIC-ACID 0 Plant *
2-HEXEN-1-AL 0 Plant *
2-METHYL-NAPHTHALENE 0 Plant *
AGRIMONIIN 7 Leaf Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
ALANINE 3 Fruit 310.0 3677.0 -0.01 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ALPHA-LINOLENIC-ACID 15 Fruit 780.0 9253.0 3.04 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Leaf *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL 32 Fruit 1.0 54.0 -0.29 *
ALUMINUM 5 Fruit 3.0 70.0 -0.20 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
ANTHOCYANIN 3 Plant *
ARBUTIN 15 Leaf ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
ARGININE 14 Fruit 260.0 3084.0 -0.33 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ARSENIC 2 Fruit 0.0 -0.52 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Fruit 400.0 6948.0 0.15 *
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Leaf 3190.0 4350.0 -0.04 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
ASH 0 Fruit 3900.0 52065.0 -0.12 *
ASPARAGINE 2 Plant *
ASPARAGINIC-ACID 0 Plant *
ASPARTIC-ACID 3 Fruit 1380.0 16370.0 0.82 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Fruit 0.1 7.0 -0.14 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Hepatoprotective 14 Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 253.
Hepatotonic 1 *
Hepatotoxic 3 *
Hepatotropic 1 *
Herbicide 2 Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Herpetifuge 1 *
Histamine-Inhibitor 2 *
HIV-RT-Inhibitor 3 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 224.
Hypercholesterolemic 1 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Hyperglycemic 1 Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Hypertensive 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Hyperthyroid 1 *
Hypnotic 2 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
Hypocholesterolemic 19 Choi, J.S., Yokozawa,* T., and Oura, H. Antihyperlipidemic Effect Of Flavonoids From Prunus davidiana. Journal of Natural Products, 54(1): 218-224, 1991.
Hypoglycemic 13 Ivorra, M.D., Paya, M., and Villar, A. 1989. A Review of Natural Products and Plants as Potential Antidiabetic Drugs. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 27: 243-275, 1989.
Hypolipidemic 2 *
Hypotensive 13 Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp.
Hypothermic 1 *