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.
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
LEAD	0	Leaf	0.0	3.0	-0.59	ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
LECITHIN	20	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.
LEUCINE	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LEUCINE	2	Plant	2230.0	26483.0	1.39	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Plant	104.0	2613.0	-0.54	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLENIC-ACID	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUTEIN	15	Leaf	not available	42.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LYSINE	4	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
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	Duke, 1992 *
MALIC-ACID	15	Leaf	not available	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	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Plant	3.0	485.0	2.78	Duke, 1992 *
MERCURY	1	Leaf	0.0	0.1	1.68	ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
METHIONINE	15	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHIONINE	15	Plant	530.0	6294.0	2.22	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
METHYL-AMINE	1	Leaf	not available	12.0	-0.90	Duke, 1992 *
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	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antitumor	15	Simon, P.W. Carrots and Other Horticultural Crops as a Source of Provitamin A Carotenes. HortScience, 25(12): 1495, 1990.
Antitumor (Bladder)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (brain)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Breast)	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (CNS)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Colon)	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Esophagus)?	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antitumor (Forestomach)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Gastric)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Liver)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Lung)	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Mouth)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Ovary)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Prostate)	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Skin)	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor (Stomach)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antitumor-Promoter	7	Cancer Research, 48: 5941.
Antitussive	2	Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 200.
Antiulcer	14	Duke, 1992 *
Antiulcerogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *