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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
B-HEMICELLULOSE 0 Fruit ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
BARIUM 0 Fruit 0.7 15.4 -0.51 *
BENZOIC-ACID 20 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
BENZYL-6-O-BETA-D-APIOFURANOSYL-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Fruit Juice *
BENZYL-ALCOHOL 9 Leaf *
BENZYL-ALCOHOL-6-O-L-ARABINOFURANOSYL-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE 0 Leaf *
BENZYL-ALCOHOL-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Leaf *
BENZYL-ALCOHOL-BETA-D-RUTINOSIDE 0 Leaf *
BETA-3-OXO-DAMASCONE 0 Fruit Juice *
BETA-AMYRIN 9 Leaf *
BETA-AMYRIN 9 Stem *
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Fruit 0.5 2.1 -0.15 *
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Stem 43.0 -0.56 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
BETA-IONONE 13 Fruit ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
BETA-PHENYLETHANOL-6-BETA-D-ARABINOFURANOSYL-BETA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE 0 Fruit Juice *
BETA-PHENYLETHANOL-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE 0 Fruit Juice *
BETA-PHENYLETHANOL-BETA-D-RUTINOSIDE 0 Fruit Juice *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Fruit 30.0 150.0 -0.60 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Seed *
BETAINE 14 Fruit Juice *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
CYP1A1-Inhibitor 1 *
Cytochrome-P450-1A2-Inhibitor 1 *
Cytochrome-P450-Inducer 1 *
Cytoprotective 2 Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Cytotoxic 16 *
Deiodinase-Inhibitor 3 Jim Duke's personal files.
Deliriant 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Demulcent 1 *
Deodorant 2 Martindale's 29th
Depressant 1 Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp.
Dermatitigenic 5 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Detoxicant 4 *
Detoxicant (Alcohol) 1 *
Diagnostic 1 Martindale's 28th
Diaphoretic 1 *
Diaphoretic? 3 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90.
Differentiator 3 *
Disinfectant 1 Martindale's 29th
Diuretic 20 *
DME-Inhibitor 1 Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 134.