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Ceratonia siliqua

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 5 constituent measurements for Ceratonia siliqua. 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: Ceratonia siliqua L.

5Constituent measurements

0Safety records

4Cited sources

28Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 28 licensed products naming Ceratonia siliqua 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.

Extract types on licence

Source material stated

Fruit
Gum
Pod
Pods
Powder
Seed endosperm
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
Gallic acid	Wood	Solvent extraction	≤ 18.9 Milligram/gram	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Gallic acid	Wood	Solvent extraction	≥ 14.83 Milligram/gram	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Gallic acid	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	—	Unspecified	Resolve DOI
Gallotannins	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	—	HPLC-DAD	Resolve DOI
Tannins	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	—	—	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.

Balaban, M. Identification of the main phenolic compounds in wood of Ceratonia siliqua by GC-MS . Phytochemical analysis, 2004, vol. 15, no. 6, p. 385-388. DOI
Cavdarova, Melita., Makris, Dimitris P. Extraction Kinetics of Phenolics from Carob (Ceratonia siliqua L.) Kibbles Using Environmentally Benign Solvents . Waste and biomass valorization, 2014, vol. 5, no. 5, p. 773-779. DOI
El Sherbeiny, A. E. A., Saleh, N. A. M., El Sissi, H. I. Local plants as potential sources of tannins in Egypt. V. Lauraceae to Meliaceae. Qualitas Plantarum et Materiae Vegetabiles, 1971, p. 285-296.
Klenow, Stefanie., Jahns, Franziska., Pool-Zobel, Beatrice L., Glei, Michael. Does an Extract of Carob (Ceratonia siliqua L.) Have Chemopreventive Potential Related To Oxidative Stress and Drug Metabolism in Human Colon Cells? . Journal of agricultural and food chemistry, 2009, vol. 57, no. 7, p. 2999-3004. DOI

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