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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
Transdermal 1 *
Trichomonicide 3 Martindale's 29th
Trypanocide 1 *
Tumor-Promoter 3 Jim Duke's personal files.
Tumorigenic 2 Jim Duke's personal files.
Tyrosinase-Inhibitor 6 *
Tyrosine-Kinase-Inhibitor 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.
Ubiquiot 6 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ulcerogenic 2 *
Uricosuric 4 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Urinary-Acidulant 1 Martindale's 29th
Urinary-Antiseptic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
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.
Uterotrophic 1 Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 227.1999.
Vasodilator 10 *
Vasopressor 1 *
VEGF-Inhibitor 2 *
Vulnerary 6 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).