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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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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
MYRISTIC-ACID 6 Plant 1.0 950.0 -0.34 *
N,N-DIMETHYLHISTAMINE 0 Leaf ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
N-ACETYLHISTAMINE 0 Leaf *
N-METHYL-ANILINE 0 Leaf 3.4 1.00 *
N-METHYL-PHENETHYLAMINE 0 Leaf 2.4 -0.41 *
N-PENTYL-AMINE 0 Leaf 0.3 -0.81 *
NEO-CHLOROGENIC-ACID 2 Shoot *
NIACIN 39 Plant 6.9 89.8 0.18 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
NICKEL 3 Plant 0.1 5.7 -0.37 *
NITROGEN 0 Leaf 3200.0 45700.0 0.10 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
OLEIC-ACID 18 Leaf *
OLEIC-ACID 18 Plant 18.0 475.0 -0.86 *
OLERAGENOSIDE 0 Plant 0.1 *
OXALIC-ACID 9 Leaf 5000.0 93900.0 2.28 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID 25 Leaf 133.0 -0.32 *
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Leaf *
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Plant 106.0 4869.0 -0.74 *
PALMITOLEIC-ACID 2 Leaf *
PALMITOLEIC-ACID 2 Plant 21.0 475.0 -1.00 *
PANTOTHENIC-ACID 11 Plant 0.6 8.7 -1.24 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Irritant 6 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
JNK-Inhibitor 1 *
Juvabional 4 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Keratolytic 1 Martindale's 29th
Larvistat 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Laxative 5 *
Laxative? 2 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Sep-91.
Leptingenic 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Leukotriene-Inhibitor 2 *
Lipolytic 1 *
Lipotropic 2 Merck 11th Edition
Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor 7 Oszmianski, J. and Lee, C.Y. 1990. Inhibitory Effect of Phenolics on Carotene Bleaching in Vegetables. J. Agric. Food Chem. 38: 688-690.
Lithogenic 2 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Litholytic 2 Martindale's 29th
Lubricant 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Lyase-Inhibitor 1 *
Lymphocytogenic 1 Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp.
MAO-A-Inhibitor 2 *
MAO-Inhibitor 2 *
Mast-Cell-Stabilizer 1 *