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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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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
ALPHA-VINIFERIN 0 Leaf 23400.0 *
ALUMINUM 5 Fruit 1.0 154.0 -0.18 *
ALUMINUM 5 Stem 1030.0 0.04 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
ANTHERAXANTHIN 1 Fruit *
ANTHOCYANIDINS 10 Pericarp Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
ANTHOCYANINS 30 Fruit *
ANTHOCYANINS 30 Leaf 3000.0 Bruneton, J. 1999. Pharmacognosy, Phytochemistry, Medicinal Plants. 2nd Ed. Lavoisier Publishing, Paris. 1119 pp.
ANTHOCYANINS 30 Pericarp Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
ARGININE 14 Fruit 490.0 2520.0 -0.48 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ARSENIC 2 Fruit 0.0 0.9 0.60 *
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Fruit 99.0 600.0 -0.25 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Leaf 3490.0 3870.0 -0.08 ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
ASCORBIC-ACID 112 Stem 310.0 -1.19 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
ASCORBIC-ACID-OXIDASE 0 Fruit ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
ASH 0 Fruit 4290.0 77000.0 0.53 *
ASH 0 Stem 88000.0 0.92 Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
ASPARTIC-ACID 3 Fruit 810.0 4167.0 -0.79 USDA's Ag Handbook 8 and sequelae)
ASRAGALIN 0 Flower *
ASTILBIN 1 Pericarp *
ASTRAGALIN 7 Leaf *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiencephalopathic? 1 Martindale's 29th
Antiendometriotic 2 *
Antiendotoxic 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antienteritic 1 *
Antienterococcic 1 *
Antienterotic 1 *
Antiepileptic 5 *
Antierythemic 3 *
Antiescherichic 6 *
Antiesherichic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiesophagitic 1 *
Antiestrogenic 4 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antiexudative 2 *
Antifatigue 8 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antifeedant 13 *
Antifertility 5 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifibrinolytic 3 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antifibromyalgic 2 *
Antifibrosarcomic 2 *
Antifibrotic 3 *