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Plant Spinacia oleracea (Chenopodiaceae)

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
HEXADECA-7,10,13-TRIENOIC-ACID 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.
HEXADECATRIENOIC-ACID 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
HEXOSAMINE 0 Seed not available 380.0 not available ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
HISTAMINE 18 Plant not available not available not available Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
HISTIDINE 7 Plant 640.0 7601.0 1.14 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
HYPEROSIDE 30 Shoot not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
INDOLE-3-ACETIC-ACID 7 Sprout Seedling not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
IODINE 12 Plant not available 0.2 -0.45 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
IRON 6 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
IRON 6 Plant 8.0 384.0 -0.29 Duke, 1992 *
ISOBETANIN 1 Pt not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ISOCELOSIANIN 0 Pt not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ISOLEUCINE 3 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ISOLEUCINE 3 Plant 1470.0 17458.0 1.33 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ISOPENTYL-AMINE 0 Leaf not available 3.8 1.00 Duke, 1992 *
JACEIDIN-4'-GLUCURONIDE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL 75 Leaf not available 2.0 -0.74 Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL 75 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
KILOCALORIES 0 Plant 220.0 2613.0 -0.63 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
L-HOMOCYSTEINE 1 Plant not available not available not available Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
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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
Serotoninergic 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Sialogogue 2 Duke, 1992 *
Soap 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Spasmogenic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Spermigenic 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Sunscreen 4 Lazarova*, G., Kostova, I., Neychev, H. 1992. Photodynamic damage prevention by some hydroxycoumarins. Fitoterapia 64(2): 134-136, 1993.
Suppository 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Sweetener 3 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Tachycardic 1 Martindale's 29th
Teratogenic 1 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
Teratologic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Testosteronigenic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Thymoprotective 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Thyrotropic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Tissue-Thromboplastin-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
TNF-alpha-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor 2 Santti, R., Makela, S., Strauss, L., Korman, J., Kostian, M. L. 1998. Phytoestrogens: Potential Endocrine Disruptors in Males. Toxicol Ind Health, 14: 223-237.
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor 3 Constantinou, A., Mehta, R., Runyan, C., Rao, K., Vaughan, A., Moon, R. 1995. Flavonoids as DNA Topoisomerase Antagonists and Poisons: Structure-Activity Relationships. J Natural Products, 58: 217-225.
Toxic 1 Martindale's 28th
Tranquilizer 2 Duke, 1992 *