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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
Antiatherogenic 4 *
Antiatheromic 1 Cerda, J.J. Pectin in Health and Disease. HortScience, 25(12): 1485, 1990.
Antiatherosclerotic 13 *
Antibackache 1 Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antibacterial 53 Revista Itiliana Eppos, 12: 5, 1994.
Antiberiberi 1 *
Antibiotic 2 *
AntiBPH 1 *
Antibronchitic 1 Dorsch, W., Wagner, H. New Antiasthmatic Drugs from Traditional Medicine? Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol 94: 262-265, 1991.
Antibrucellosic 1 Gawron, A., Gorski*, G., Glowniak**, K. 1989. Increased proliferation of phytohaemagglutinin (PHA)-stimulated human leucocytes after 8-methoxypsoralen treatment. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 194-195, 1990.
Anticalculic 1 *
Anticancer 19 *
Anticancer (Bladder) 1 *
Anticancer (Breast) 4 Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix) 3 *
Anticancer (Colon) 4 *
Anticancer (Esophagus) 1 Joseph, J., Nadeau, D. and Underwood, A. 2001. The Color Code. Hyperion, NY.
Anticancer (Esophagus)? 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticancer (Forestomach) 2 *
Anticancer (Kidney) 1 Mills, Simon and Bone, Kerry. 2000. Phytotherapy. Churchill
Livinston, Edinburgh.