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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Spinacia oleracea (Chenopodiaceae)

Common Names
Spinach
How this plant is used
Food

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
LEAD 0 Leaf 0.0 3.0 -0.59 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
LECITHIN 20 Leaf ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
LEUCINE 2 Leaf *
LEUCINE 2 Plant 2230.0 26483.0 1.39 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
LINOLEIC-ACID 27 Leaf *
LINOLEIC-ACID 27 Plant 104.0 2613.0 -0.54 *
LINOLENIC-ACID 0 Leaf *
LUTEIN 15 Leaf 42.0 *
LYSINE 4 Leaf *
LYSINE 4 Plant 1740.0 20664.0 1.31 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
MAGNESIUM 65 Plant 420.0 11000.0 2.15 *
MALIC-ACID 15 Leaf 4300.0 -0.75 Soldatenkov, S. V., Mazurova, T. A., Ranteleev, A. N. 1960. Organic Acids of Onion and Spinach. Trudy Petergof Biol. Inst., Leningrad Gosudarst Univ Im AA Zhdanova, 18: 55-61.
MALTOSE 2 Leaf *
MANGANESE 14 Plant 3.0 485.0 2.78 *
MERCURY 1 Leaf 0.0 0.1 1.68 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
METHIONINE 15 Leaf *
METHIONINE 15 Plant 530.0 6294.0 2.22 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
METHYL-AMINE 1 Leaf 12.0 -0.90 *
MOLYBDENUM 2 Plant 0.1 0.8 -0.64 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
MONOGALACTOSYLDIACYLGLYCEROL 0 Plant *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Androgenic 1 *
Androgenic? 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anemiagenic 1 *
Angiotensin-Receptor-Blocker 3 *
Anorexic 2 Forest H. Nielsen, USDA, Grand Forks, various publications.
Antiacid 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiacne 6 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiacrodermatitic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiacrodynic 1 *
AntiADD 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiadenoviral 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antiadrenalinic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiaflatoxin 2 *
AntiAGE 2 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antiaggregant 11 Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp.
Antiaging 6 *
Antiakathisic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antialcoholic 4 Forest H. Nielsen, USDA, Grand Forks, various publications.
Antialdosteronic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antialkali? 1 Martindale's 29th