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Plant Rubus idaeus (Rosaceae)

Common Names
Red Raspberry; Raspberry
How this plant is used
Food

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
THEASPIRANE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
THIAMIN 31 Fruit 0.3 2.2 -0.40 Revised USDA data received 1993.
THIAMIN 31 Leaf not available 3.4 -1.02 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
THIAMINE 0 Leaf 0.6 3.4 -0.44 Duke, 1992 *
TIN 4 Leaf 4.0 22.0 0.76 Duke, 1992 *
TOCOPHEROL 93 Fruit 3.0 12.0 -0.63 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
TRANS-2-PHENYLBUTANONE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
VALERIANIC-ACID 1 Fruit not available not available not available List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
VANILLIC-ACID 24 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
VIT-B-6 0 Fruit 0.5 4.3 -0.66 Revised USDA data received 1993.
WATER 0 Fruit not available 865700.0 0.41 Revised USDA data received 1993.
WATER 0 Leaf not available 831000.0 0.12 Duke, 1992 *
XYLITOL 10 Fruit not available 0.4 not available Duke, 1992 *
XYLOSE 3 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ZINC 77 Fruit 4.0 37.0 0.20 Revised USDA data received 1993.
ZINC 77 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Deodorant 1 Martindale's 29th
Depressant 1 Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
Dermatitigenic 4 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Detoxicant 2 Duke, 1992 *
Detoxicant (Alcohol) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Diagnostic 1 Martindale's 28th
Diaphoretic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Diaphoretic? 3 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Differentiator 1 Duke, 1992 *
Disinfectant 1 Martindale's 29th
Diuretic 11 Duke, 1992 *
DNA-Active 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
DNA-Protective 1 Duke, 1992 *
Dye 2 Merck 11th Edition
Embryotoxic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Emetic 4 Duke, 1992 *
Encephalopathic 1 Martindale's 29th
Energizer 1 Duke, 1992 *
Ergogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Erythrocytogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.