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
(+)-CATECHIN	30	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-CATECHIN	30	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-EPICATECHIN	38	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-EPICATECHIN	38	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(-)-EPIGALLOCATECHIN	21	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
1,8-CINEOL	0	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2-HYDROXY-3-METHYLBUTANOIC-ACID-ETHYL-ESTER	0	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2-HYDROXY-3-METHYLBUTANOIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER	0	Fruit Juice	not available	0.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2-METHOXY-5-VINYL-PHENOL	0	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2-METHYL-BUTAN-1-OL	0	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2-METHYL-BUTANOIC-ACID	0	Fruit Juice	not available	0.1	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
2-PHENYLETHANOL	0	Fruit Juice	not available	0.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3,4-DIHYDROXYCINNAMIC-ACID	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3-HYDROXY-3-METHYLBUTANOIC-ACID-ETHYL-ESTER	0	Fruit Juice	not available	0.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3-HYDROXY-3-METHYLBUTANOIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER	0	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3-PHENYL-PROPAN-1-OL	0	Fruit Juice	not available	0.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
4-HYDROXY-BENZOIC-ACID	0	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
4-HYDROXY-BENZOIC-ACID	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
4-VINLYPHENOL	0	Fruit Juice	not available	0.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ACETIC-ACID	16	Fruit Juice	not available	0.3	-1.00	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
Anticancer (Colon)	3	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Esophagus)?	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticancer (Forestomach)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Liver)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Pancreas)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Skin)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticanker	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticapillary-Fragility	2	Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Anticapillary-Fragility?	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticarcinogenic	5	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Anticarcinomic	4	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticarcinomic (Breast)	1	Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Anticardiospasmic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticaries	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticariogenic	9	Muroi, H. and Kubo, I. 1993. Combination Effects of Antibacterial Compounds in Green Tea Flavor against Streptococcus mutans. J. Agric. Food Chem. 41: 1102-1105.
Anticarpal-Tunnel	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticataract	9	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticephalagic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticervicaldysplasic	3	Duke, 1992 *