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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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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
POTASSIUM 14 Plant 2060.0 69077.0 3.30 *
PROLINE 0 Plant 1120.0 13301.0 1.20 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PROTEIN 0 Plant 27480.0 352954.0 1.47 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PROTOCATECHUIC-ACID 43 Shoot *
PYRROLIDINE 1 Leaf 2.5 *
QUERCETIN 176 Leaf 1.0 19.0 -0.35 *
QUERCITRIN 44 Leaf 500.0 -0.49 *
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Plant 1.8 23.4 0.84 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
RUBIDIUM 0 Leaf 0.9 90.0 1.82 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
RUTIN 87 Leaf 170.0 -0.99 *
RUTIN 87 Shoot *
SALICYLATES 7 Leaf 0.3 60.0 -0.45 *
SAPONINS 5 Leaf 47000.0 -0.23 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
SELENIUM 60 Leaf 0.1 -0.38 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
SERINE 1 Plant 1040.0 12351.0 1.06 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
SILICON 4 Leaf 1.0 855.0 2.13 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
SODIUM 1 Plant 585.0 10669.0 0.29 *
SPINACETIN 0 Leaf *
SPINACETIN-3-O-BETA-D-(2''-FERULOYL-GLUCOPYRANOSYL)-(1,6)-(BETA-D-APIOFURANOSYL(1,2))-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE 0 Leaf *
SPINACETIN-3-O-BETA-D-(2''-FERULOYL-GLUCOPYRANOSYL)-(1,6)-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE 0 Leaf *
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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 *
Detoxicant (Alcohol) 1 *
Diaphoretic? 3 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Differentiator 1 *
Disinfectant 1 Martindale's 29th
Diuretic 12 *
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 *
Dye 2 Merck 11th Edition
Emetic 1 Martindale's 29th
Encephalopathic 1 Martindale's 29th
Energizer 1 *
Ergogenic 1 *
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 *
Estrogenic? 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.