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.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Hepatomagenic	2	Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Hepatoprotective	13	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 210.
Hepatotonic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotoxic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotropic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Herbicide	2	Angewandte Botanik 68(5/6)=1994. Page 195.
Histamine-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Histaminic	2	Duke, 1992 *
HIV-RT-Inhibitor	2	Garcia, J., Morin,* C., Nyasse, B., Sondengam, B-L., Tchouankeu, J-C., and Tsamo, E. Complete Structural Assignments Of An Ergosterol Derivative From Entandrophragma utile. Journal of Natural Products, 54(1): 136-142, 1991.
Hydrocholerectic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypercholesterolemic	2	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Hyperglycemic	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.
Hypertensive	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Hyperthyroid	1	Duke, 1992 *
Hyperuricemic	1	Martindale's 28th
Hypnotic	1	Martindale's 29th
Hypoammonemic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypoarginanemic	1	Martindale's 29th
Hypocalcemic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Hypocholesterolemic	17	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.