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Plant Vaccinium macrocarpon (Ericaceae)

Common Names
Cranberry; Large Cranberry; American Cranberry
How this plant is used
Food
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
WATER 0 Fruit not available 880000.0 0.48 Duke, 1992 *
ZETA-CAROTENE 0 Plant 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.
ZINC 77 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Teratologic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Termiticide 3 Duke, 1992 *
Testosteronigenic 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Thymoprotective 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Tissue-Thromboplastin-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
TNF-alpha-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
TOPO-2-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Topoisomerase-I-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
Topoisomerase-II-Inhibitor 3 Duke, 1992 *
Toxic 1 Martindale's 28th
Tranquilizer 2 Duke, 1992 *
Transdermal 1 Duke, 1992 *
Trichomonicide 2 Martindale's 29th
Trichomonistat 1 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Trypanocide 1 Duke, 1992 *
Trypsin-Enhancer 1 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-93.
Tumorigenic 1 Jim Duke's personal files.
Tyrosinase-Inhibitor 5 Duke, 1992 *
Tyrosine-Kinase-Inhibitor 3 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 170.
Ubiquiot 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.