Plant Sinapis alba (Brassicaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

White Mustard

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
4-HYDROXYBENZOYLCHOLINE	0	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALANINE	3	Seed	11870.0	12700.0	0.54	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-LINOLENIC-ACID	15	Seed	26148.0	29373.0	0.25	Duke, 1992 *
ARABINOSE	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARACHIDIC-ACID	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARGININE	14	Seed	17500.0	18725.0	-0.25	Duke, 1992 *
ARSENIC	2	Seed	not available	0.1	-0.28	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Seed	44145.0	49280.0	0.04	Duke, 1992 *
ASPARTIC-ACID	3	Seed	19670.0	21050.0	-0.14	Duke, 1992 *
BEHENIC-ACID	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Seed	4983.0	5850.0	0.31	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Seed	208000.0	373858.0	-0.59	Duke, 1992 *
CELLULOSE	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHOLESTEROL	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHOLINE	20	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHROMIUM	24	Seed	not available	18.6	2.03	Duke, 1992 *
COBALT	2	Seed	not available	1.1	-0.16	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Urine-Deodorant	1	Martindale's 29th
Uterorelaxant	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Varroacide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vasodilator	8	Duke, 1992 *
Vulnerary	3	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).