Botanical species · safety record

Chaenomeles speciosa

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 8 constituent measurements and 2 adverse-effect records for Chaenomeles speciosa. 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: Chaenomeles speciosa (Sweet) Nakai

8Constituent measurements

2Safety records

1Cited sources

128Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 128 licensed products naming Chaenomeles speciosa 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

Chaenomeles speciosa fruit
Dried nearly ripe fruit
Dried ripe fruit
Fruit
Nearly ripe fruit
Ripe fruit(s)

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
Chlorogenic acid	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	≤ 236.08 Microgram/gram	UV/VIS spectroscopy (photometry)	Resolve DOI
Chlorogenic acid	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	≥ 172.19 Microgram/gram	UV/VIS spectroscopy (photometry)	Resolve DOI
Gallic acid	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	≥ 17.37 Microgram/gram	UV/VIS spectroscopy (photometry)	Resolve DOI
Gallic acid	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	≤ 99.75 Microgram/gram	UV/VIS spectroscopy (photometry)	Resolve DOI
P-coumaric acid	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	≤ 124.76 Microgram/gram	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	Resolve DOI
P-coumaric acid	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	≥ 16.93 Microgram/gram	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	Resolve DOI
Saponins	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	≥ 44.13 Milligram-equivalent/gram	UV/VIS spectroscopy (photometry)	Resolve DOI
Saponins	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	≤ 60.61 Milligram-equivalent/gram	UV/VIS spectroscopy (photometry)	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
Digestive	Digestive: pancreas	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	—	In vitro	Resolve DOI
Digestive	Digestive: pancreas	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	—	In vitro	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.

Miao, Jing., Zhao, Chengcheng., Li, Xia., Chen, Xuetao., Mao, Xinhui., Huang, Hanhan., Wang, Tingting., Gao, Wenyuan. Chemical Composition and Bioactivities of Two Common Chaenomeles Fruits in China: Chaenomeles speciosa and Chaenomeles sinensis . Journal of food science, 2016, vol. 81, no. 8, p. H2049-H2058. 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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