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Balanites aegyptiaca

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 16 constituent measurements and 1 adverse-effect record for Balanites aegyptiaca. 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: Balanites aegyptiaca (L.) Delile

16Constituent measurements

1Safety records

8Cited 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

Effect types

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
Balanitoside	Fruit unspecified	—	—	Colorimetry, Spectroscopy (Spectrometry) and Photometry	Resolve DOI
Moupinamide	Bark	Solvent extraction	—	HPLC with standard detection methods	Resolve DOI
Trigonelline	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	—	LC-MS	Resolve DOI
Anthraquinones	Leaves	Solvent extraction	< 10 Milligram/kilogram	Phytochemical screening	No resolvable identifier
Cardiac glycosides	Leaves	Solvent extraction	≤ 50 Milligram/kilogram	Phytochemical screening	No resolvable identifier
Cardiac glycosides	Leaves	Solvent extraction	≥ 10 Milligram/kilogram	Phytochemical screening	No resolvable identifier
Coumarins	Leaves	Solvent extraction	—	Phytochemical screening	No resolvable identifier
Hydrocyanic acid	Seed	—	3.5 Milligram/100 gram	Traditional analytical techniques (wet chemical tests)	No resolvable identifier
Oxalates	Fruit unspecified	Fresh	14.5 Percent	Traditional analytical techniques (wet chemical tests)	No resolvable identifier
Saponins	Fruit unspecified	Fresh	16 Percent	Traditional analytical techniques (wet chemical tests)	No resolvable identifier
Saponins	Live plants	Solvent extraction	> 100 Milligram/kilogram	Phytochemical screening	No resolvable identifier
Saponins	Seed	—	7 Percent	Traditional analytical techniques (wet chemical tests)	No resolvable identifier
Tannins	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	≤ 100 Milligram/kilogram	Phytochemical screening	No resolvable identifier
Tannins	Roots and other underground parts	Solvent extraction	≥ 50 Milligram/kilogram	Phytochemical screening	No resolvable identifier
Tannins	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	≤ 50 Milligram/kilogram	Phytochemical screening	No resolvable identifier
Tannins	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	≥ 10 Milligram/kilogram	Phytochemical screening	No resolvable identifier

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
Not reported	—	Bark	Solvent extraction	Nile tilapia	Case report	Resolve DOI

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.

Ojo, OO., Nadra, MS., Tella, IO. Protection of rats by extracts of some common Nigerian trees against acetaminophen-induced hepatotoxicity. AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY, 2006, vol. 5, no. 9, p. 755-760.
Sarker, S. D., Bartholomew, B., Nash, R. J. Alkaloids from Balanites aegyptiaca. Fitoterapia, 2000, vol. 71, no. 3, p. 328-330. DOI
Farag, M.A., Porzel, A., Wessjohann, L.A. Unraveling the active hypoglycemic agent trigonelline in Balanites aegyptiaca date fruit using metabolite fingerprinting by NMR. Journal of pharmaceutical and biomedical analysis, 2015, vol. 115, p. 383-387. DOI
Umaru, H. A., Adamu, R., Dahiru, D., Nadro, M. S. Levels of antinutritional factors in some wild edible fruits of Northern Nigeria. AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY, 2007, vol. 6, no. 16, p. 1935-1938.
Nkafamiya, I. I., Modibbo, U. U., Manji, A. J., Haggai, D. Nutrient content of seeds of some wild plants. African journal of biotechnology, 2007, vol. 6, no. 14, p. 1665-1669.
Kumawat, B.K., Gupta, M., Chand, T., Singh, Y. Prelimenary phytochemical investigation on leaves of Balanites aegyptiaca (L.) Delile. Research journal of pharmaceutical, biological and chemical sciences, 2012, vol. 3, no. 2, p. 762-768.
Ufodike, E. B. C., Omoregie, E. Acute toxicity of water extracts of barks of Balanites aegyptiaca and Kigelia africana to Oreochromis niloticus (L.). Aquaculture and Fisheries Management, 1994, vol. 25, no. 9, p. 873-879. DOI
HOSNY, M., KHALIFA, T., CALIS, I., WRIGHT, AD., STICHER, O. BALANITOSIDE, A FUROSTANOL GLYCOSIDE, AND 6-METHYL-DIOSGENIN FROM BALANITES-AEGYPTIACA . Phytochemistry, 1992, vol. 31, no. 10, p. 3565-3569. DOI

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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