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Citrus maxima

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 4 constituent measurements and 4 adverse-effect records for Citrus maxima. 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: Citrus maxima (Burm.) Merr.

4Constituent measurements
4Safety records
4Cited sources
83Licensed products (Canada)

Also recorded as

Synonyms are carried from the source compendium. A species may be traded and studied under more than one name, which is exactly how a safety record gets lost.

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 83 licensed products naming Citrus maxima 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

  • Dry

Source material stated

  • Citrus maxima - Fruit
  • Exocarp
  • Fruit peel outer
  • New material
  • Peel
  • Pulp
  • Seed of fruit

What the records describe

Constituents measured

  • Coumarins1
  • Furanocoumarins1
  • Myrcene1
  • Quinoline alkaloids1

Plant parts

  • Fruit peel5
  • Fruit unspecified2
  • Bark1

Preparations

  • Solvent extraction5
  • Fresh2
  • Essential oil1

Effect types

  • Digestive4

Target tissues

  • Digestive4

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.

SubstancePlant partPreparationConcentrationAnalytical methodSource
MyrceneFruit peelEssential oilGC-MSResolve DOI
CoumarinsFruit unspecifiedFreshHPLC-UVNo resolvable identifier
FuranocoumarinsFruit unspecifiedFreshHPLC-UVNo resolvable identifier
Quinoline alkaloidsBarkSolvent extractionColorimetry, Spectroscopy (Spectrometry) and PhotometryNo 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.

EffectTarget tissuePlant partPreparationTest organismTest typeSource
DigestiveDigestiveFruit peelSolvent extractionIn vitroResolve DOI
DigestiveDigestiveFruit peelSolvent extractionIn vitroResolve DOI
DigestiveDigestiveFruit peelSolvent extractionIn vitroResolve DOI
DigestiveDigestiveFruit peelSolvent extractionIn vitroResolve 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.

  1. Sun, Hao., Ni, Hui., Yang, Yuanfan., Chen, Feng., Cai, Huinong., Xiao, Anfeng. Sensory evaluation and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) analysis of the volatile extracts of pummelo (Citrus maxima) peel . Flavour and fragrance journal, 2014, vol. 29, no. 5, p. 305-312. DOI
  2. Teng, WY., Huang, YL., Shen, CC., Huang, RL., Chung, RS., Chen, CC. Cytotoxic acridone alkaloids from the stem bark of Citrus maxima. JOURNAL OF THE CHINESE CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 2005, vol. 52, no. 6, p. 1253-1255.
  3. Oboh, Ganiyu., Ademosun, Ayokunle O. Shaddock peels (Citrus maxima) phenolic extracts inhibit alpha-amylase, alpha-glucosidase and angiotensin I-converting enzyme activities: a nutraceutical approach to diabetes management. . Diabetes & metabolic syndrome, 2011, vol. 5, no. 3, p. 148-52. DOI
  4. Russo, M., Bonaccorsi, I., Torre, G., Cotroneo, A., Dugo, P., Mondello, L. Determination of bioactive compounds in the juice of pummelo (Citrus grandis osbeck). Natural product communications, 2013, vol. 8, no. 2, p. 171-174.

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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