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Camelina sativa

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 7 constituent measurements for Camelina sativa. 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: Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz

7Constituent measurements

0Safety records

5Cited sources

15Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 15 licensed products naming Camelina sativa 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

Grain(s)
Oil
Seed
Seed oil
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
Glucosinolates	Seed	Drying (dehydration)	36.3 Millimole/kilogram	Gaschromatography (GC)	Resolve DOI
Lignans, total	Seed	Drying (dehydration)	5976 Microgram/100 gram	GC-FID	Resolve DOI
Sinapine	Seed	Solvent extraction	4 Milligram/gram	Unspecified	Resolve DOI
Sum of glucosinolates	Seed	Solvent extraction	18.6 Millimole/kilogram	Unspecified	Resolve DOI
Calystegines	Leaves	Drying (dehydration)	—	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Phytic acid	Seed	Drying (dehydration)	29.9 Gram/kilogram	Classification not possible	No resolvable identifier
Sinapine	Seed	Drying (dehydration)	2.32 Gram/kilogram	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	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.

Matthaus, B., Angelini, LG. Anti-nutritive constituents in oilseed crops from Italy. INDUSTRIAL CROPS AND PRODUCTS, 2005, vol. 21, no. 1, p. 89-99. DOI
Russo, Roberto., Reggiani, Remo. Antinutritive compounds in twelve Camelina sativa genotypes. American Journal of Plant Sciences, 2012, p. 1408-1412.
Smeds, Annika I., Eklund, Patrik C., Willfor, Stefan M. Content, composition, and stereochemical characterisation of lignans in berries and seeds. FOOD CHEMISTRY, 2012, vol. 134, no. 4, p. 1991-1998. DOI
Kahindi, R. K., Woyengo, T. A., Thacker, P. A., Nyachoti, C. M. Energy and amino acid digestibility of camelina cake fed to growing pigs. ANIMAL FEED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 2014, vol. 193, p. 93-101. DOI
Brock, Andrea., Herzfeld, Tobias., Paschke, Reinhard., Koch, Marcus., Draeger, Birgit. Brassicaceae contain nortropane alkaloids. Phytochemistry (Elsevier), 2006, p. 2050-2057.

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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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