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Plant 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.
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
PHOSPHATIDYL-INOSITOL 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHATIDYL-SERINE 0 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHODIESTERASE 0 Root not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS 4 Fruit 117.0 1848.0 -0.42 Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS 4 Stem not available 1710.0 -0.59 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
PHYLLOQUINONE 5 Fruit 0.0 0.1 -0.22 Duke, 1992 *
PHYTOENE 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PHYTOFLUENE 0 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PHYTOSTEROLS 2 Fruit 40.0 206.0 -0.95 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
PICEID 7 Fruit not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
POLYPHENOL-OXIDASE 0 Fruit not available not available not available ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
POPULNIN 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM 14 Fruit 1784.0 24640.0 0.59 Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM 14 Stem not available 20100.0 0.51 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
POTASSIUM-BITARTRATE 1 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
PROANTHOCYANIDIN-B1 0 Leaf 88.0 333.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
PROANTHOCYANIDIN-B1-3-O-GALLATE 0 Leaf 0.0 6.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
PROANTHOCYANIDIN-B2 0 Leaf 17.0 94.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
PROANTHOCYANIDIN-B2-3'-O-GALLATE 0 Leaf 3.0 25.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
PROANTHOCYANIDIN-B2-3,3'-O-GALLATE 0 Leaf 0.0 4.0 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
Hypercholesterolemic 2 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Hyperglycemic 3 Merck 11th Edition
Hypertensive 2 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Hypnotic 3 Schultes, R.E. De Plantis Toxicariis e Mundo Novo Tropicale Commentationes XXXVI. Justicia (Acanthaceae) as a Source of an Hallucinogenic Snuff. Economic Botany 44(1): 61-70, 1990.
Hypoammonemic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypoarginanemic 1 Martindale's 29th
Hypocholesterolemic 27 Choi, J.S., Yokozawa,* T., and Oura, H. Antihyperlipidemic Effect Of Flavonoids From Prunus davidiana. Journal of Natural Products, 54(1): 218-224, 1991.
Hypoglycemic 19 Duke, 1992 *
Hypolipemic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hypolipidemic 4 Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive 22 Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp.
Hypothermic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Hypotriglyceridemic 1 Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
Hypouricemic 1 Duke, 1992 *
ICAM-1-Inhibitor 2 Duke, 1992 *
IKB-kinase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
IKK-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Ileorelaxant 1 Duke, 1992 *
Immunomodulator 14 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Immunostimulant 17 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.