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
SPINACETIN-3-O-BETA-D-(2''-P-COUMAROYL-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-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-GLUCOPYRANOSYL(1,6)-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SPINACOSIDE-A	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SPINACOSIDE-B	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SPINACOSIDE-C	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SPINACOSIDE-C	0	Shoot	not available	10.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SPINACOSIDE-D	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SPINACOSIDE-D	0	Shoot	not available	10.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SPINASAPONINS	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SPINASTEROL	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SPINASTEROL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SPINATOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID	8	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID	8	Plant	7.0	356.0	-0.67	Duke, 1992 *
STIGMAST-7-EN-3-BETA-OL-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STRONTIUM	0	Plant	0.1	0.8	-1.01	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
SULFOLIPIDS	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SULFUR	14	Plant	270.0	5700.0	0.78	Duke, 1992 *
THIAMIN	31	Plant	0.7	10.2	0.22	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
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).