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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
Anticariogenic 10 Muroi, H. and Kubo, I. 1993. Combination Effects of Antibacterial Compounds in Green Tea Flavor against Streptococcus mutans. J. Agric. Food Chem. 41: 1102-1105.
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.
Anticatarrh 1 Martindale's 29th
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 4 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
AntiCFS 2 Duke, 1992 *
Anticheilitic 3 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antichilblain 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticholestatic 1 Shukla, B., Visen, P.K.S., Patnaik, G.K., Tripathi, S.C., Srimal, R.C., Dayal, R., and Dobhal, P.C. Hepatoprotective Activity in the Rat of Ursolic Acid Isolated from Eucalyptus Hybrid. Phytotherapy Research 6: 74-79, 1992.
Anticholinergic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Anticholinesterase 3 Grundy, D. L. and Still, C. C., Inhibition of acetylcholinesterases by pulegone-1,2-epoxide, Oest. Biochem. & Physiol., 23, 1985, 383-8.
Anticlastogen 2 Duke, 1992 *
Anticlaudificant? 1 Martindale's 29th
Anticlimacteric 3 Duke, 1992 *
Anticoagulant 2 Duke, 1992 *
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).
Anticomplement 2 Hansel, R., Keller, K., Rimpler, H., and Schneider, G. eds. 1992. Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Drogen (A-D), 1209 pp., 1993 (E-O), 970 pp., 1994 (P-Z), 1196 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.