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

Common Names

Spinach

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
PATULETIN	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PATULETIN-3-O-BETA-D-(2''-FERULOYL-GLUCOPYRANOSYL)-(1,6)-(BETA-D-APIOFURANOSYL-(1,2))-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PATULETIN-3-O-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSYL-(1,6)-(BETA-D-APIOFURANOSYL-(1,2))-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHENETHYLAMINE	3	Leaf	not available	1.1	-0.98	Duke, 1992 *
PHENYLALANINE	7	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHENYLALANINE	7	Plant	1290.0	15320.0	1.65	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PHEOPHYTIN-A	3	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHATIDYL-CHOLINE	2	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHATIDYL-ETHANOLAMINE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHATIDYL-GLYCEROL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHATIDYL-INOSITOL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHATIDYL-SERINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Plant	250.0	6232.0	1.27	Duke, 1992 *
PHYLLOQUINONE	5	Tuber	not available	3.8	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTIC-ACID	9	Leaf	not available	80.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTOSTEROLS	2	Plant	90.0	1800.0	1.08	Duke, 1992 *
PHYTYLPLASTOQUINOL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POLYPHENOL-OXIDASE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
POLYPODINE-B	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
POLYPODINE-B	0	Seed	not available	2.3	not available	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
Antiretinopathic	1	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
Antiretinotic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antirheumatic	7	Martindale's 29th
Antirheumatitic?	1	Martindale's 29th
Antirhinitic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antisclerodermic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiscoliotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiscorbutic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiscotomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiseborrheic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiseptic	13	Martindale's 28th
Antiserotonin	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antishingles	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antisickling	2	Ekeke, G.I. and Shode, F.O. 1988. Phenylalanine is the Predominant Antisickling Agent in Cajanus cajan Seed Extract. Planta Medica 56(1): 41, 1990.
Antisilicotic	1	Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Antisinusitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antispare-Tire	1	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
Antispasmodic	13	Phytotherapy Research, 4: 73.
Antispasmophilic	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
AntiSpina-Bifida	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.