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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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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
BETULINIC-ACID 22 Root *
BIOTIN 4 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
BORON 4 Fruit 1.0 50.0 0.20 *
BREVILAGIN-I 0 Leaf 533.3 *
BROMINE 0 Fruit 1.0 -0.43 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
CADMIUM 3 Fruit 0.0 0.2 0.04 *
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Fruit *
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Leaf *
CAFFEIC-ACID 102 Root *
CAFFEOYL-TARTRATE 0 Fruit Jim Duke's personal files.
CAFFEOYLTARTARIC-ACID 3 Fruit Jim Duke's personal files.
CAFFEYLTARTARIC-ACID 0 Fruit *
CAFTARIC-ACID 3 Fruit *
CALCIUM 28 Fruit 92.0 4774.0 0.21 *
CALCIUM 28 Stem 17700.0 -0.11 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
CALCIUM-PECTATE 0 Leaf 69000.0 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
CAMPESTEROL 2 Plant Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
CAMPESTEROL 2 Seed *
CARBOHYDRATES 0 Fruit 177700.0 914095.0 0.70 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
CATALASE 1 Fruit ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Pesticide 86 *
PGE2-Inhibitor 1 *
Phagocytotic 6 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 124.
Phospholipase-A2-Inhibitor 1 *
Phospholipase-Inhibitor 1 *
Photosensitizer 1 Rinzler, C. A. 1990. The Complete Book of Herbs, Spices and Condiments. Facts on File, New York. 199 pp.
Phytoalexin 6 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Phytohormonal 3 *
Pigment 8 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Piscicide 3 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Pituitary-Stimulant 1 *
PKC-Inhibitor 1 *
PKD-Inhibitor 1 *
Plasmodicide 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Polyamine-Synthesis-Inhibitor 1 *
Potassium-Sparing 1 Iwu, M.M. 1993. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 435 pp.
Preservative 2 Merck 11th Edition
Previtamin-A 2 *
Prolactinogenic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Proliferant 2 *