Botanical species · safety record

Actinidia chinensis

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 9 constituent measurements for Actinidia chinensis. This page reports what those source records contain and how to reach them. It carries no effect estimate, no dose and no recommendation.

Accepted name in source: Actinidia chinensis Planch.

9Constituent measurements

0Safety records

2Cited sources

22Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 22 licensed products naming Actinidia chinensis as a medicinal ingredient, matched on the exact Latin binomial. A licence records that a product met the regulator's requirements for sale in Canada. It is not evidence that the product works.

Extract types on licence

Source material stated

Actinidia chinensis - Fruit
Fruit

What the records describe

Constituents measured

Plant parts

Preparations

Recorded constituents

What analytical work has found in this species, at which plant part and preparation. A measured constituent is a fact about material, not about effect.

Substance	Plant part	Preparation	Concentration	Analytical method	Source
Lariciresinol	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	17 Microgram/100 gram	LC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Lariciresinol	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	10 Microgram/100 gram	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Lignans, total	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	148 Microgram/100 gram	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Lignans, total	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	129 Microgram/100 gram	LC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Medioresinol	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	5 Microgram/100 gram	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Pinoresinol	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	8 Microgram/100 gram	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Secoisolarisiresinol	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	112 Microgram/100 gram	LC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Secoisolarisiresinol	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	116 Microgram/100 gram	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Syringaresinol	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	8 Microgram/100 gram	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier

Cited sources

The literature the compendium cites for this species. Metatron Health has no relationship with these authors or journals and earns nothing from citing them.

Penalvo, Jose L., Haajanen, Kati M., Botting, Nigel., Adlercreutz, Herman. Quantification of Lignans in Food Using Isotope Dilution Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry. Journal of agricultural and food chemistry, 2005, vol. 53, no. 24, p. 9342-9347.
Milder, Ivon E. J., Arts, Ilja C. W., van de Putte, Betty., Venema, Dini P., Hollman, Peter C. H. Lignan contents of Dutch plant foods: A database including lariciresinol, pinoresinol, secoisolariciresinol and matairesinol. British journal of nutrition, 2005, vol. 93, no. 3, p. 393-402.

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