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Amaranthus caudatus

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 10 constituent measurements for Amaranthus caudatus. 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: Amaranthus caudatus L.

10Constituent measurements

0Safety records

2Cited sources

2Licensed products (Canada)

Also recorded as

Amaranthus mantegazzianus Pass.

Synonyms are carried from the source compendium. A species may be traded and studied under more than one name, which is exactly how a safety record gets lost.

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 2 licensed products naming Amaranthus caudatus 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.

Source material stated

Seed
Seed(s)

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
3,4-dihydroxybenzoic acid	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	≥ 2.2 Microgram/gram	UHPLC-MS-MS	Resolve DOI
3,4-dihydroxybenzoic acid	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	≤ 4 Microgram/gram	UHPLC-MS-MS	Resolve DOI
4-hydroxybenzoic acid	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	≥ 1.5 Microgram/gram	UHPLC-MS-MS	Resolve DOI
4-hydroxybenzoic acid	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	≤ 3.5 Microgram/gram	UHPLC-MS-MS	Resolve DOI
P-coumaric acid	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	≥ 4 Microgram/gram	UHPLC-MS-MS	Resolve DOI
P-coumaric acid	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	≤ 15 Microgram/gram	UHPLC-MS-MS	Resolve DOI
Trigonelline	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	≥ 1580 Microgram/gram	UHPLC-MS-MS	Resolve DOI
Trigonelline	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	≤ 1620 Microgram/gram	UHPLC-MS-MS	Resolve DOI
Atropine	Seed	Solvent extraction	—	UHPLC-MS-MS	No resolvable identifier
Scopolamine	Seed	Solvent extraction	—	UHPLC-MS-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.

Steffensen, Stine Krogh., Pedersen, Hans Albert., Labouriau, Rodrigo., Mortensen, Anne G., Laursen, Bente., de Troiani, Rosa M., Noellemeyer, Elke J., Janovska, Dagmar., Stavelikova, Helena., Taberner, Andreu., Christophersen, Carsten., Fomsgaard, Inge S. Variation of Polyphenols and Betaines in Aerial Parts of Young, Field-Grown Amaranthus Genotypes . Journal of agricultural and food chemistry, 2011, vol. 59, no. 22, p. 12073-12082. DOI
Chen, Hongping., Marin-Saez, Jesus., Romero-Gonzalez, Roberto., Garrido Frenich, Antonia. Simultaneous determination of atropine and scopolamine in buckwheat and related products using modified QuEChERS and liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry. Food chemistry, 2017, vol. 218, p. 173-180.

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