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
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Plant	730.0	15700.0	0.23	Duke, 1992 *
CALMODULIN	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALMODULIN	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.
CALSEQUESTRIN	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPESTEROL	2	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Plant	35000.0	415660.0	-1.65	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
CARBONIC-ANHYDRASE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CELOSIANIN	0	Pt	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CEPHALIN	1	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.
CHLORINE	7	Plant	540.0	6835.0	0.10	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
CHLOROGENIC-ACID	77	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHLOROPHYLL	21	Fruit Juice	not available	3.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHLOROPHYLL	21	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHLOROPHYLL-A	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHOLESTEROL	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHROMIUM	24	Flower	0.0	0.4	-1.21	ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
CITRIC-ACID	23	Leaf	not available	2300.0	-0.52	Soldatenkov, S. V., Mazurova, T. A., Ranteleev, A. N. 1960. Organic Acids of Onion and Spinach. Trudy Petergof Biol. Inst., Leningrad Gosudarst Univ Im AA Zhdanova, 18: 55-61.
COBALT	2	Plant	0.0	1.2	-0.44	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Anticarcinomic (Breast)	1	Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Anticardiospasmic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticariogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticariogenic?	1	Martindale's 28th
Anticarpal-Tunnel	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticataract	11	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticephalagic	3	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticervicaldysplasic	5	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
AntiCFS	3	Duke, 1992 *
Anticheilitic	4	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antichilblain	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticirrhotic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticirrhotic?	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticlastogen	3	Duke, 1992 *
Anticlaudificant?	1	Martindale's 29th
Anticlimacteric	4	Duke, 1992 *
Anticoagulant	1	Merck 11th Edition
Anticoeliac	1	Martindale's 28th
Anticold	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticolitic	3	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).