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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
HEXADECA-7,10,13-TRIENOIC-ACID 0 Leaf ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
HEXADECATRIENOIC-ACID 0 Leaf *
HEXOSAMINE 0 Seed 380.0 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
HISTAMINE 18 Plant Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
HISTIDINE 7 Plant 640.0 7601.0 1.14 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
HYPEROSIDE 30 Shoot *
INDOLE-3-ACETIC-ACID 7 Sprout Seedling *
IODINE 12 Plant 0.2 -0.45 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
IRON 6 Leaf *
IRON 6 Plant 8.0 384.0 -0.29 *
ISOBETANIN 1 Pt *
ISOCELOSIANIN 0 Pt *
ISOLEUCINE 3 Leaf *
ISOLEUCINE 3 Plant 1470.0 17458.0 1.33 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ISOPENTYL-AMINE 0 Leaf 3.8 1.00 *
JACEIDIN-4'-GLUCURONIDE 0 Leaf *
KAEMPFEROL 75 Leaf 2.0 -0.74 *
KAEMPFEROL 75 Plant *
KILOCALORIES 0 Plant 220.0 2613.0 -0.63 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
L-HOMOCYSTEINE 1 Plant Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
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Antiuremic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiuricosuric 1 Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Antivaccinia 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antivaginitic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antivaricose 1 *
Antivertigo 1 *
Antiviral 12 *
Antiviral? 1 Martindale's 29th
Antivitiligic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiwrinkle 1 *
Antixerophthalmic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anxiolytic 7 Merck 11th Edition
AP-1-Inhibitor 1 *
Aphrodisiac 1 *
Apoptotic 6 *
Aromatase-Inhibitor 1 Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 235.1999.
Arteriodilator 1 Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990.
Asthma-preventive 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Astringent 1 Martindale's 28th
ATPase-Inhibitor 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.