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
MYRISTIC-ACID	6	Plant	1.0	950.0	-0.34	Duke, 1992 *
N,N-DIMETHYLHISTAMINE	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.
N-ACETYLHISTAMINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-METHYL-ANILINE	0	Leaf	not available	3.4	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
N-METHYL-PHENETHYLAMINE	0	Leaf	not available	2.4	-0.41	Duke, 1992 *
N-PENTYL-AMINE	0	Leaf	not available	0.3	-0.81	Duke, 1992 *
NEO-CHLOROGENIC-ACID	2	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Plant	6.9	89.8	0.18	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
NICKEL	3	Plant	0.1	5.7	-0.37	Duke, 1992 *
NITROGEN	0	Leaf	3200.0	45700.0	0.10	ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
OLEIC-ACID	18	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Plant	18.0	475.0	-0.86	Duke, 1992 *
OLERAGENOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	0.1	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OXALIC-ACID	9	Leaf	5000.0	93900.0	2.28	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Leaf	not available	133.0	-0.32	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Plant	106.0	4869.0	-0.74	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITOLEIC-ACID	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITOLEIC-ACID	2	Plant	21.0	475.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
PANTOTHENIC-ACID	11	Plant	0.6	8.7	-1.24	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
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 *