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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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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
OLEIC-ACID 18 Seed 9975.0 -0.90 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
P-COUMARIC-ACID 25 Fruit 63.0 125.0 -0.08 Jim Duke's personal files.
P-HYDROXY-BENZOIC-ACID 13 Fruit 19.0 108.0 -0.61 Jim Duke's personal files.
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Fruit 140.0 1661.0 -0.34 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PALMITOLEIC-ACID 2 Fruit 10.0 119.0 -0.32 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PANTOTHENIC-ACID 11 Fruit 3.4 40.0 1.40 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PECTIN 24 Fruit 5400.0 -0.57 *
PEDUNCULAGIN 9 Leaf Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
PELARGONIC-ACID 0 Leaf List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
PELARGONIDIN-3-GLUCOSIDE 0 Fruit Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
PELARGONIDIN-3-MONOGLUCOSIDE 0 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
PHOSPHORUS 4 Fruit 185.0 3191.0 -0.01 *
PHYLLOQUINONE 5 Fruit 0.0 -0.23 *
PHYTATE 0 Fruit 60.0 230.0 -0.71 *
PHYTOSTEROLS 2 Fruit 120.0 1423.0 0.62 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
POTASSIUM 14 Leaf 1400.0 22500.0 -0.35 *
POTASSIUM-OXIDE 0 Plant *
PROLINE 0 Fruit 190.0 1898.0 -0.58 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PROTEIN 0 Fruit 5840.0 85000.0 -0.33 *
PROTOCATECHUIC-ACID 43 Fruit Jim Duke's personal files.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor 8 Hatano, T., Yasuhara, T., Yoshihara, R., Agata, I., Noro, T., and Okuda, T. 1989. Effects of Interaction of Tannins with Co-existing Substances.VII. Inhibitory Effects of Tannins Related Polyphenols on Xanthine Oxidase. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(5): 1224-1229