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Anthriscus cerefolium

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 23 constituent measurements for Anthriscus cerefolium. 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: Anthriscus cerefolium (L.) Hoffm.

23Constituent measurements

0Safety records

7Cited sources

0Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

No Health Canada licensed natural health product in the snapshot names this species as a medicinal ingredient under this exact binomial. Absence here means absence from this one register under this one name, not absence from trade, and not a safety verdict.

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
(+)-pulegone	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≥ 0.26 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
(+)-pulegone	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≤ 6.24 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
1,8-cineole	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≤ 2.81 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
1,8-cineole	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≥ 0.6 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Asarone	Leaves	Solvent extraction	< 0.7 Nanogram/gram	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Bergapten	Leaves	Solvent extraction	≤ 0.4 Nanogram/gram	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Estragole	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≥ 14.74 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Estragole	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	≤ 26.43 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Estragole	Stem / stalk	Essential oil	≥ 4 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Estragole	Stem / stalk	Essential oil	≤ 15 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Falcarindiol	Leaves	Solvent extraction	40 Nanogram/gram	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Methoxsalen	Leaves	Solvent extraction	≤ 1 Nanogram/gram	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Methylisoeugenol	Leaves	Solvent extraction	1 Nanogram/gram	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Myrcene	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	4.1 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Polyacetylene derivatives	Leaves	Solvent extraction	160 Nanogram/gram	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Benzoquinones	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	969 Microgram/100 gram	HPLC-FD	No resolvable identifier
Benzoquinones	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	2530 Microgram/100 gram	HPLC-FD	No resolvable identifier
Deoxypodophyllotoxin	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	—	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	No resolvable identifier
Estragole	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	12.6 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Estragole	Fruit unspecified	Essential oil	≥ 40.7 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Estragole	Fruit unspecified	Essential oil	≤ 95.9 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Estragole	Leaves	Essential oil	70.4 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Estragole	Stem / stalk	Essential oil	58.4 Percent	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.

El Gendy, A. G., El Gohary, A. E., Omer, E. A., Hendawy, S. F., Hussein, M. S., Petrova, V., Stancheva, I. Effect of nitrogen and potassium fertilizer on herbage and oil yield of chervil plant (Anthriscus cerefolium L.) . Industrial crops and products, 2015, vol. 69, p. 167-174. DOI
Presse, Nancy., Potvin, Stephanie., Bertrand, Benoit., Calvo, Mona S., Ferland, Guylaine. Phylloquinone content of herbs, spices and seasonings. Journal of food composition and analysis, 2015, vol. 41, p. 15-20.
Degen, T., Buser, HR., Stadler, E. Patterns of oviposition stimulants for carrot fly in leaves of various host plants . Journal of chemical ecology, 1999, vol. 25, no. 1, p. 67-87. DOI
Fejes, S., Lemberkovics, E., Balazs, A., Apati, P., Kristo, TS., Szoke, E., Kery, A., Blazovics, A., Szoke, E., Mathe, I., Blunden, G., Kery, A. Antioxidant activity of different compounds from Anthriscus cerefolium L. (Hoffm.) . Proceedings of the international conference on medicinal and aromatic plants, pt ii: (follow up of acta horticulturae 576), 2003, no. 597, p. 191-198.
Chizzola, Remigius. Composition of the Essential Oils from Anthriscus cerefolium var. trichocarpa and A. caucalis Growing Wild in the Urban Area of Vienna (Austria) . Natural product communications, 2011, vol. 6, no. 8, p. 1147-1150.
Lemberkovics, E., Petri, G., Vit�nyi, G., Lelik, L. Essential oil composition of chervil growing wild in Hungary. Part 1.. Journal of essential oil research, 1994, vol. 6, no. 4, p. 421-422. DOI
Kilic, Omer. Essential Oil Composition of Aerial Parts of Two Anthriscus Pers. Species From Turkey . Journal of essential oil bearing plants, 2017, vol. 20, no. 2, p. 591-596. DOI

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