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

Common Names

Cranberry; Large Cranberry; American Cranberry

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
BETA-O-GLUCOSYL-FERULOYL-BETA-GLUCOSE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BORON	4	Fruit	1.0	8.0	-0.64	ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
CADMIUM	3	Fruit	0.0	0.2	0.03	ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
CAFFEIC-ACID-3-GLUCOSIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
CAFFEIC-ACID-4-GLUCOSIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
CALCIUM	28	Fruit	1440.0	12000.0	1.88	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Fruit	100000.0	942050.0	0.85	Duke, 1992 *
CATECHINS	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Abstract (See species file)
CHLOROGENIC-ACID	77	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHROMIUM	24	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CHRYSANTHEMIN	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CITRIC-ACID	23	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
COBALT	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Fruit	0.5	4.7	-0.63	USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
CYANIDIN-3,5-DIGLUCOSIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYANIDIN-3-ARABINOSIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYANIDIN-3-GALACTOSIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYANIDIN-3-GLUCOSIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EUGENOL	76	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Fruit	2280.0	19000.0	-0.50	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
Apifuge	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Apoptotic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Aromatase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Artemicide	2	Jung, J.H., Pummangura, S., Chaichantipyuth, c., Patarapanich, C., and McLaughlin, J.L. 1989. Bioactive Constituents of Melodorum fruticosum. Phytochemistry. 29(5): 1667-1670. 1990.
Arteriodilator	1	Ozaki, Y. and Ma, J-P. 1989. Inhibitory Effects of Tetramethylpyrazine and Ferulic Acid on Spontaneous Movement of Rat Uterus in Situ. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(6): 1620-1623, 1990.
Asthma-preventive	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Astringent	1	Martindale's 28th
ATPase-Inhibitor	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Autotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Bacteristat	2	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Adrenergic Receptor Blocker	1	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Blocker	4	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Glucuronidase-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
Bradycardiac	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Bruchiphobe	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Calcium-Antagonist	4	Duke, 1992 *
Calcium-Channel-Blocker	1	Duke, 1992 *
Calmodulin-Antagonist	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
cAMP-Inhibitor	1	Schussler, M., Fricke, U., Nikolov, N., and Holzl, J. 1991. Comparison of the Flavonoids Occurring in Crataegus species and Inhibition of 3',5'-Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate Phosphodiesterase. Plant Medica 57: Suppl Issue 2. p.A-133.
cAMP-Phosphodiesterase-Inhibitor	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).