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
MYRISTIC-ACID	6	Plant	1.0	950.0	-0.34	Duke, 1992 *
N,N-DIMETHYLHISTAMINE	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.
N-ACETYLHISTAMINE	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
N-METHYL-ANILINE	0	Leaf	not available	3.4	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
N-METHYL-PHENETHYLAMINE	0	Leaf	not available	2.4	-0.41	Duke, 1992 *
N-PENTYL-AMINE	0	Leaf	not available	0.3	-0.81	Duke, 1992 *
NEO-CHLOROGENIC-ACID	2	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Plant	6.9	89.8	0.18	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
NICKEL	3	Plant	0.1	5.7	-0.37	Duke, 1992 *
NITROGEN	0	Leaf	3200.0	45700.0	0.10	ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
OLEIC-ACID	18	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Plant	18.0	475.0	-0.86	Duke, 1992 *
OLERAGENOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	0.1	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OXALIC-ACID	9	Leaf	5000.0	93900.0	2.28	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Leaf	not available	133.0	-0.32	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Plant	106.0	4869.0	-0.74	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITOLEIC-ACID	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITOLEIC-ACID	2	Plant	21.0	475.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
PANTOTHENIC-ACID	11	Plant	0.6	8.7	-1.24	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
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Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antiencephalopathic?	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiendometriotic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antienterotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiepileptic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antierythemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiescherichic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiestrogenic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antifatigue	7	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antifeedant	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antifertility	2	Kumar, P., Dixit*, V.P., and Khanna, P. Antifertility Studies of Kaempferol: Isolation and Identification from Tissue Culture of some Medicinally Important Plant Species. Plantes medicinales et phytotherapie, 23: 193-201, 1989.
Antifibrinolytic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antifibromyalgic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrosarcomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrotic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antiflu	4	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antifuruncular	1	Martindale's 28th
Antigallstone	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigastric	1	Rastitel'nye Resursy, 21: 85.
Antigastritic	3	Martindale's 29th
Antigastrotic	1	Duke, 1992 *