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
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.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Deodorant	2	Merck 11th Edition
Depressant	1	Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
Dermatitigenic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Detoxicant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Detoxicant (Alcohol)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Diaphoretic?	3	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Differentiator	1	Duke, 1992 *
Disinfectant	1	Martindale's 29th
Diuretic	12	Duke, 1992 *
DNA-Active	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
DNA-Protective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Dye	2	Merck 11th Edition
Emetic	1	Martindale's 29th
Encephalopathic	1	Martindale's 29th
Energizer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ergogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Erythrocytogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Essential	8	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Estrogenic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Estrogenic?	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.