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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Vaccinium corymbosum (Ericaceae)

Common Names
Blueberry
How this plant is used
Food

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
FOLACIN 15 Fruit 0.1 0.5 -0.63 *
FRUCTOSE 8 Fruit *
GALLIC-ACID 62 Plant *
GALLIC-ACID-4-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Fruit *
GAMMA-DECALACTONE 3 Plant *
GERANIOL 35 Fruit 0.0 0.0 -0.61 *
GLUCOSE 7 Fruit *
GLUTAMIC-ACID 8 Fruit 830.0 5393.0 -0.61 *
GLYCINE 12 Fruit 280.0 1819.0 -0.69 *
HEX-CIS-3-EN-1-AL 0 Fruit Juice 0.0 0.1 *
HEX-TRANS-2-1-AL 0 Fruit Juice 0.0 0.5 *
HEX-TRANS-2-1-OL 0 Fruit Juice 0.1 *
HEX-TRANS-2-EN-1-OL 0 Fruit Juice 0.0 0.5 1.00 *
HEXAN-1-0L 0 Fruit Juice 0.0 0.4 *
HEXAN-1-AL 0 Fruit Juice *
HISTIDINE 7 Fruit 100.0 715.0 -0.70 *
HYDROXY-CITRONELLOL 0 Fruit 0.0 0.1 *
HYDROXY-ISOCARVOMENTHOL 0 Fruit *
HYPEROSIDE 30 Plant *
IRON 6 Fruit 2.0 11.0 -0.48 *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiadenovirus 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 194.
Antiadrenergic 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Antiaflatoxin 3 *
AntiAGE 1 Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000.
Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antiaggregant 13 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiaging 5 *
Antiakathisic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antialcoholic 5 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antialdosteronic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antialkali? 1 Martindale's 29th
Antialkalotic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiallergenic 2 Dorsch, W., Wagner, H. New Antiasthmatic Drugs from Traditional Medicine? Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol 94: 262-265, 1991.
Antiallergic 10 J. Food Hyg. Soc. Jap. 33(6): 569.
Antialopecic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antialzheimeran 8 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antialzheimeran? 3 Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Antiamblyopic 1 *
Antianaphylactic 4 *
Antiandrogenic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antianemic 5 *