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
POTASSIUM	14	Plant	2060.0	69077.0	3.30	Duke, 1992 *
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	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PYRROLIDINE	1	Leaf	not available	2.5	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN	176	Leaf	1.0	19.0	-0.35	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCITRIN	44	Leaf	not available	500.0	-0.49	Duke, 1992 *
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	not available	170.0	-0.99	Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN	87	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SALICYLATES	7	Leaf	0.3	60.0	-0.45	Duke, 1992 *
SAPONINS	5	Leaf	not available	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	not available	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	Duke, 1992 *
SPINACETIN	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SPINACETIN-3-O-BETA-D-(2''-FERULOYL-GLUCOPYRANOSYL)-(1,6)-(BETA-D-APIOFURANOSYL(1,2))-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SPINACETIN-3-O-BETA-D-(2''-FERULOYL-GLUCOPYRANOSYL)-(1,6)-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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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).