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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Vitis vinifera (Vitaceae)

Common Names
Grape; European Grape; Wine Grape; Grapevine; Vigne Vinifere (Fr.); Weinrebe (Ger.); Parra (Sp.); Vid (Sp.)
How this plant is used
Food
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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
PROCYANIDIN-B-5 0 Seed *
PROCYANIDIN-B-6 1 Seed *
PROCYANIDIN-B-7 0 Seed *
PROCYANIDIN-B-8 0 Seed *
PROCYANIDIN-B1,3'-O-GALLATE 0 Seed *
PROCYANIDIN-C-1 0 Leaf *
PROCYANIDIN-C-1 0 Seed *
PROCYANIDIN-C-2 1 Seed *
PROCYANIDIN-G 0 Pericarp *
PROCYANIDINS 27 Fruit *
PROLINE 0 Fruit 220.0 1132.0 -0.79 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PROTEIN 0 Fruit 6350.0 35236.0 -1.00 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PROTEIN 0 Seed 70000.0 100000.0 -1.19 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PROTEIN 0 Stem 89000.0 -0.71 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
PROTOCATECHUALDEHYDE 1 Fruit *
PROTOCATECHUALDEHYDE 1 Leaf *
PROTOCATECHUIC-ACID 43 Leaf *
PROTOPECTINASE 0 Fruit ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
PTEROSTILBENE 19 Leaf *
PUFA 4 Fruit 1690.0 8693.0 -0.22 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Catabolic 2 *
Chelator 1 *
Chemopreventive 14 *
Cholagogue 3 Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Choleretic 18 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Cholesterolytic 4 *
Choline-Sparing 2 Singleton, V.L. 1981. Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants: Phenolic Substances of Plant Origin Common in Foods. Advances in Food Research 27: 149-217.
Cholinergic 2 Martindale's 28th
Chronotropic 1 *
Cicatrizant 1 *
Circulatory-Stimulant 1 *
Circulotonic 2 *
Clastogenic 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
CNS-Active 2 Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
CNS-Depressant 5 Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
CNS-Inhibitor 1 Borchard, R. E., Barnes, C. D., and Eltherton, L. G. 1991. Drug Dosage in Laboratory Animals: A Handbook. (3rd Ed.) The Telford Press, Inc., P. O. Box 287, Caldwell NJ 07006.
CNS-Paralytic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
CNS-Stimulant 3 *
Co-carcinogenic 1 *
Cold-preventive 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.