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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Vaccinium myrtillus (Ericaceae)

Common Names
Bilberry; Whortleberry; Dwarf Bilberry
How this plant is used
Food

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
CYANIDIN-3-GLUCOSIDE 0 Fruit *
CYANIDIN-3-O-ARABINOSIDE 0 Fruit *
CYANIDIN-3-O-ARABINOSIDE 0 Leaf 219.0 438.0 *
CYANIDIN-3-O-GALACTOSIDE 4 Fruit *
CYANIDIN-3-O-GALACTOSIDE 4 Leaf 275.0 550.0 *
CYANIDIN-3-O-GLUCOSIDE 19 Fruit *
CYANIDIN-3-O-GLUCOSIDE 19 Leaf 342.0 684.0 *
CYANIDIN-GLYCOSIDE 0 Plant *
DELPHINIDIN 9 Fruit *
DELPHINIDIN-3-MONOGLUCOSIDE 0 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
DELPHINIDIN-3-O-ARABINOSIDE 0 Fruit *
DELPHINIDIN-3-O-ARABINOSIDE 0 Leaf 432.0 864.0 *
DELPHINIDIN-3-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 1 Fruit *
DELPHINIDIN-3-O-GALACTOSIDE 0 Fruit *
DELPHINIDIN-3-O-GALACTOSIDE 0 Leaf 504.0 1004.0 *
DELPHINIDIN-3-O-GLUCOSIDE 0 Leaf 581.0 1162.0 *
DELPHINIDIN-3-RHAMNOGLYCOSIDE 0 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
DELPHINIDIN-5-MONOGLYCOSIDE 0 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
DELPHINIDIN-GLYCOSIDE 0 Plant *
DELTA-DECALACTONE 1 Fruit Juice *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiapoptotic 1 *
Antiarabiflavinotic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antiarachidonate 1 *
Antiarrhythmic 8 *
Antiarteriosclerotic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiarthritic 14 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiasthmatic 10 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiatherogenic 3 *
Antiatheromic 1 Cerda, J.J. Pectin in Health and Disease. HortScience, 25(12): 1485, 1990.
Antiatherosclerotic 12 *
Antibackache 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antibacterial 48 Revista Itiliana Eppos, 12: 5, 1994.
Antiberiberi 1 *
Antibiotic 2 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
AntiBPH 1 *
Antibronchitic 1 Dorsch, W., Wagner, H. New Antiasthmatic Drugs from Traditional Medicine? Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol 94: 262-265, 1991.
Anticalculic 1 *
Anticancer 14 *
Anticancer (Breast) 3 Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix) 1 *