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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Vaccinium macrocarpon (Ericaceae)

Common Names
Cranberry; Large Cranberry; American Cranberry
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
MYRICETIN 34 Fruit Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
MYRICETIN-3-ARABINOSIDE 0 Fruit *
MYRICETIN-3-DIGALACTOSIDE 0 Fruit *
NIACIN 39 Fruit 10.0 80.0 0.26 *
NICKEL 3 Fruit 0.1 0.4 -0.66 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
NITROGEN 0 Fruit 650.0 5000.0 -0.67 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
OLEANOLIC-ACID 64 Fruit *
OXALIC-ACID 9 Fruit Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
OXYCOCCRIYANINE 0 Fruit Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
P-COUMARIC-ACID 25 Fruit *
PANTOTHENIC-ACID 11 Fruit 2.2 16.0 -0.13 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PARASORBIC-ACID 4 Shoot 84.0 *
PARASORBIC-ACID-GLUCOSIDE 2 Leaf *
PECTIN 24 Fruit 4800.0 40000.0 -0.16 *
PEONIDIN-3-ARABINOSIDE 0 Fruit *
PEONIDIN-3-GALACTOSIDE 0 Fruit *
PEONIDIN-3-GLUCOSIDE 0 Fruit *
PEONIDIN-3-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 1 Fruit *
PHOSPHORUS 4 Fruit 924.0 7700.0 1.36 *
PHYLLOQUINONE 5 Fruit 0.0 -0.23 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiseptic 16 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiserotonin 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antishingles 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antisilicotic 1 Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Antispare-Tire 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
Antispasmodic 11 *
Antispasmophilic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
AntiSpina-Bifida 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antistaphylococcic 3 *
Antistomatitic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antistreptococcic 1 *
Antistress 4 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antistroke 3 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
Antisunburn 1 *
Antisyndrome-X 6 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
AntiTGF-beta 2 *
Antithiamin 1 Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, 69.
Antithrombic 3 *
Antithrombogenic 1 *
Antithromboxane 2 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jul-87.