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Plant Ribes uva-crispa (Grossulariaceae)

Common Names
Gooseberry
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
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Fruit 0.0 2.0 -0.64 Duke, 1992 *
SACCHAROSE 0 Fruit not available 630.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
SELENIUM 60 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SHIKIMIC-ACID 14 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SILICON 4 Fruit 1.0 42.0 -0.47 Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM 1 Fruit 10.0 82.0 -0.18 Duke, 1992 *
STARCH 5 Fruit not available 15000.0 -0.43 Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID 8 Fruit 130.0 1071.0 -0.21 Duke, 1992 *
SUCROSE 14 Fruit not available 7100.0 -0.70 Duke, 1992 *
SUGARS 0 Fruit 19800.0 102500.0 -0.46 Duke, 1992 *
SULFUR 14 Fruit 96.0 1113.0 -0.21 Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN 35 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TARTARIC-ACID 6 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
THIAMIN 31 Fruit 0.0 3.0 -0.30 Duke, 1992 *
TOCOPHEROL 93 Fruit 7.0 56.0 -0.12 Duke, 1992 *
VIT-B-6 0 Fruit 1.0 7.0 -0.20 Duke, 1992 *
WATER 0 Fruit 875000.0 882000.0 0.48 Duke, 1992 *
ZINC 77 Fruit 1.0 16.0 -0.43 Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Nematicide 2 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Neoplastic 1 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
Nephrotoxic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Neuroprotective 2 Duke, 1992 *
Neurotransmitter 1 Duke, 1992 *
NF-kB-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
NO-Genic 1 Duke, 1992 *
NO-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Odontolytic 1 Zebovitz, T. C. Ed. 1989. Part VII. Flavor and Fragrance Substances, in Keith L. H. and Walters, D.B., eds. Compendium of Safety Data Sheets for Research and Industrial Chemicals. VCH Publishers, New York. 3560-4253.
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor 5 Hagerman, A.E. Tannin-Protein Interactions. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.19.
Osteogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Osteolytic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Oviposition-Stimulant 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
P21-Inducer 1 Duke, 1992 *
Parasiticide 1 Martindale's 29th
Percutaneostimulant 1 Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990.
Perfumery 3 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Peristaltic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Pesticide 19 Duke, 1992 *
Phagocytotic 3 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.