Botanical species · safety record

Ananas comosus

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 4 constituent measurements and 1 adverse-effect record for Ananas comosus. 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: Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.

4Constituent measurements

1Safety records

3Cited sources

70Licensed products (Canada)

Also recorded as

Ananas sativus Schult. & Schult.f.

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 70 licensed products naming Ananas comosus 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

Ananas comosus - fruit
Ananas sativus
Fruit
Fruit Juice
Fruit extract
Fruit(s)
Pineapple
Stem

What the records describe

Constituents measured

Plant parts

Preparations

Effect types

Target tissues

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
Cardenolides	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	—	Phytochemical screening	Resolve DOI
Cardiac glycosides	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	—	Phytochemical screening	Resolve DOI
Melatonin	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	302 Picogram/gram	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	Resolve DOI
Tannins	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	—	Phytochemical screening	Resolve DOI

Recorded adverse effects

Adverse effects reported in the source literature, most often in animal or laboratory models at a stated preparation and dose.

Effect	Target tissue	Plant part	Preparation	Test organism	Test type	Source
Reproductive	Uterus	Fruit unspecified	Unripe / immature	Rat (as animal)	Reproduction toxicity	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.

Johns, N.P., Johns, J., Porasuphatana, S., Plaimee, P., Sae-Teaw, M. Dietary intake of melatonin from tropical fruit altered urinary excretion of 6-sulfatoxymelatonin in healthy volunteers. Journal of agricultural and food chemistry, 2013, vol. 61, no. 4, p. 913-919. DOI
Yakubu, Musa T., Olawepo, Oluwabimpe J., Fasoranti, Gbonjubola A. Ananas comosus: Is the unripe fruit juice an abortifacient in pregnant Wistar rats? . European journal of contraception and reproductive health care, 2011, vol. 16, no. 5, p. 397-402. DOI
Garg S K., Saksena S K., Chaudhury R R. Antifertility screening of plants. VI. Effect of five indigenous plants on early pregnancy in albino rats. The indian journal of medical research, 1970, p. 1285-1289.

Boundary

A constituent measurement is a fact about material at a stated preparation, not a statement about what that material does in a person. An adverse-effect or genotoxicity record is an observation reported in a source, most often in an animal or laboratory model. Neither is a Metatron Health conclusion about causality, human risk or benefit, and the absence of a record is not proof that a preparation is safe. Nothing here is diagnosis, prescribing or individual medical care.

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