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

Common Names

Bilberry; Whortleberry; Dwarf Bilberry

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
PEONIDIN-3-O-GLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	131.0	262.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PETUNIDIN	3	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PETUNIDIN-3-O-ARABINOSIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PETUNIDIN-3-O-ARABINOSIDE	0	Leaf	108.0	216.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PETUNIDIN-3-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PETUNIDIN-3-O-GALACTOSIDE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PETUNIDIN-3-O-GALACTOSIDE	0	Leaf	189.0	378.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PETUNIDIN-3-O-GLUCOSIDE	0	Leaf	367.0	734.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PETUNIDIN-GLYCOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHENOL	26	Fruit Juice	not available	0.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHENYL-ACETALDEHYDE	2	Fruit Juice	not available	0.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Fruit	856.0	10700.0	2.27	Duke, 1992 *
PHYLLOQUINONE	5	Fruit	not available	0.0	-0.23	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Fruit	1338.0	16730.0	-0.10	Duke, 1992 *
PROCYANIDIN-A-1	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROCYANIDIN-B-1	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROCYANIDIN-B-1	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROCYANIDIN-B-2	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROCYANIDIN-B-2	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROCYANIDIN-B-3	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	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
Pigment	7	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Piscicide	2	Duke, 1992 *
Plasmodicide	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Polyamine-Synthesis-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Potassium-Sparing	1	Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Preservative	2	Merck 11th Edition
Proliferant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Prooxidant	8	Duke, 1992 *
Propecic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandigenic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Sparer	1	Fujita, T., Nakatani, E., Funaishi, N., Sakuma, S., Fujimoto, Y. Potent inhibition of prostaglandin inactivation in rabbit gastric antral mucosal slices by selenium ions in-vitro. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 655-657, 1990.
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor	5	Duke, 1992 *
Prosticide	1	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
Protease-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor	2	Naim, M., Zehavi, U., Nagy, S., and Rouseff, R.L. Hydroxycinnamic Acids as Off-Flavor Precursors in Citrus Fruits and Their Products. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.14.
Protisticide	4	Martindale's 29th
Psychotropic	1	Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
PTK-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Quinone-Reductase-Inducer	4	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.
Radioprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *