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Plant Vaccinium corymbosum (Ericaceae)

Common Names
Blueberry
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
QUERCETIN-3-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 2 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
QUERCITRIN 44 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
RESVERATROL 68 Fruit not available not available not available ARS News Notes, April 7, 1999. Anticancer Agent Confirmed in Berries; ARS Natural Products Utilization Research Unit, Oxford, Miss.
RIBOFLAVIN 15 Fruit 0.5 3.4 -0.34 Duke, 1992 *
ROSMARINIC-ACID 57 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
RUTIN 87 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SCOPOLETIN 44 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
SERINE 1 Fruit 200.0 1300.0 -0.83 Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM 1 Fruit 56.0 414.0 -0.14 Duke, 1992 *
THIAMIN 31 Fruit 0.5 3.1 -0.29 Duke, 1992 *
THREONINE 4 Fruit 180.0 1170.0 -0.77 Duke, 1992 *
THYMOL 71 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-CINNAMALDEHYDE 7 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-CINNAMYL-ALCOHOL 0 Fruit not available 0.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
TRYPTOPHAN 29 Fruit 30.0 195.0 -0.92 Duke, 1992 *
TYROSINE 8 Fruit 80.0 520.0 -0.79 Duke, 1992 *
URSOLIC-ACID 89 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
VALINE 3 Fruit 280.0 1820.0 -0.54 Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIC-ACID 24 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
VANILLIN 28 Fruit 0.0 0.1 -1.00 Duke, 1992 *
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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
Radioprotective 2 Duke, 1992 *
Roborant 1 Merck 11th Edition
Rodenticide 2 Duke, 1992 *
Rubefacient 1 Martindale's 29th
Schizophrenigenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Secretogogue 2 Duke, 1992 *
Sedative 20 Wagner & Wolff, eds. 1977. New Natural Products (RS164. I56. 176)
Serotoninergic 3 Jim Duke's personal files.
Sodium-Sparing 1 Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Spasmogenic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Spermicide 2 Martindale's 28th
Spermigenic 2 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Sprout-Inhibitor 1 Duke, J.A.. Personal Communication.
Styptic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Sunscreen 6 Lazarova*, G., Kostova, I., Neychev, H. 1992. Photodynamic damage prevention by some hydroxycoumarins. Fitoterapia 64(2): 134-136, 1993.
Surfactant 1 Duke, 1992 *
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 Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
Teratologic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Termiticide 3 Duke, 1992 *