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

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Spinach

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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
COLAMINE	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.
COPPER	12	Plant	0.1	24.0	1.11	Duke, 1992 *
COUMESTROL	13	Leaf	0.1	100.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
CYSTATHIONINE	0	Leaf	not available	0.2	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYSTINE	2	Plant	350.0	4157.0	0.98	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
DEHYDROASCORBIC-ACID	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIETHYL-AMINE	2	Leaf	not available	15.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIGALACTOSYLDIACYLGLYCEROL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ECDYSONE	3	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ETHYL-AMINE	0	Leaf	not available	8.4	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Plant	3070.0	46672.0	-0.07	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
FERULIC-ACID	61	Inflorescence	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FERULIC-ACID	61	Leaf	not available	16.0	0.37	Duke, 1992 *
FIBER	15	Plant	6000.0	111634.0	-0.82	Duke, 1992 *
FLUORINE	0	Leaf	0.3	5.7	0.52	ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
FOLACIN	15	Plant	1.6	27.1	-0.05	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
FOLIC-ACID	23	Plant	1.2	15.0	-0.45	Duke, 1992 *
GLUTAMIC-ACID	8	Plant	3430.0	40735.0	1.57	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
GLUTATHIONE	7	Plant	90.0	1065.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
GLYCINE	12	Plant	1340.0	15914.0	1.69	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Autotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Bacteristat	2	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Adrenergic Receptor Blocker	1	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Blocker	2	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Glucuronidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Bilirubinolytic	1	Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Bradycardiac	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Bronchoconstrictor	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Bronchostimulant	1	Martindale's 28th
Bruchiphobe	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Calcium-Antagonist	4	Duke, 1992 *
Calcium-Channel-Blocker	1	Duke, 1992 *
Calmodulin-Antagonist	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
cAMP-Inhibitor	1	Schussler, M., Fricke, U., Nikolov, N., and Holzl, J. 1991. Comparison of the Flavonoids Occurring in Crataegus species and Inhibition of 3',5'-Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate Phosphodiesterase. Plant Medica 57: Suppl Issue 2. p.A-133.
cAMP-Phosphodiesterase-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Cancer-Preventive	32	Stitt, P. A. Why George Should Eat Broccoli. Dougherty Co, Milwaukee, WI, 1990, 399 pp.
Candidicide	4	Martindale's 28th
Capillarifortificant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Capillarigenic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Capillariprotective	2	Merck 11th Edition