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.
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Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
ARGININE	14	Plant	1620.0	19239.0	1.28	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ARSENIC	2	Leaf	0.0	0.3	0.73	ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
ASCORBATE	0	Plant	212.0	4450.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Fruit Juice	not available	55.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Plant	239.0	7595.0	1.19	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Plant	16850.0	285700.0	2.98	Duke, 1992 *
ASPARTIC-ACID	3	Plant	2400.0	28502.0	0.58	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ASTRAGALIN	7	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BENZYL-AMINE	0	Leaf	not available	6.1	1.39	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Leaf	not available	32.5	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Plant	4.0	690.0	3.01	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CRYPTOXANTHIN	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-ECDYSONE	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-ECDYSONE	2	Seed	not available	214.5	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETANIN	5	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETANIN	5	Pt	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BORON	4	Leaf	2.4	40.0	-0.58	ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
BROMINE	0	Leaf	not available	4.0	-0.99	ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
CADMIUM	3	Leaf	0.1	5.0	1.08	ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antiataxic	1	Martindale's 28th
Antiatherogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherosclerotic	12	Duke, 1992 *
Antibackache	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antibacterial	16	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiberiberi	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiBPH	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticalculic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer	9	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast)	2	Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Colon)	3	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Esophagus)?	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticancer (Forestomach)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Liver)	4	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung)	1	Joseph, J., Nadeau, D. and Underwood, A. 2001. The Color Code. Hyperion, NY.
Anticancer (Skin)	3	Duke, 1992 *
Anticanker	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticapillary-Fragility	2	Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Anticarcinogenic	3	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).