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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
Prooxidant 11 *
Propecic 7 *
Prostaglandigenic 5 *
Prostaglandin-Sparer 1 Fujita, T., Nakatani, E., Funaishi, N., Sakuma, S., Fujimoto, Y. Potent inhibition of prostaglandin inactivation in rabbit gastric antral mucosal slices by selenium ions in-vitro. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 655-657, 1990.
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor 6 *
Prostaglandin-Synthetase-Inhibitor 1 *
Protease-Inhibitor 1 *
Protein-Kinase-C-Inhibitor 3 Naim, M., Zehavi, U., Nagy, S., and Rouseff, R.L. Hydroxycinnamic Acids as Off-Flavor Precursors in Citrus Fruits and Their Products. Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health, Ch.14.
Protisticide 5 Martindale's 29th
Psychotropic 1 Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
PTK-Inhibitor 4 *
Quinone-Reductase-Inducer 8 *
Radioprotective 1 *
Refrigerant 1 Martindale's 28th
Renotoxic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Respirodepressant 1 *
Retinoprotectant Optometry 1 *
Reverse-Transcriptase-Inhibitor 1 McKenna, D. J., Hughes, K., and Jones, K. 2000. Green Tea Monograph. Alternative Therapies, 6(3): 61-82.
Roborant 1 Merck 11th Edition
Rodenticide 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.