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Corylus avellana

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 5 constituent measurements for Corylus avellana. 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: Corylus avellana L.

5Constituent measurements
0Safety records
2Cited sources
36Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 36 licensed products naming Corylus avellana 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
  • Fresh

Source material stated

  • Bark of fresh stem
  • Buds
  • Grain(s)
  • New material
  • Nut(s)
  • Seed(s)
  • Stem bark

What the records describe

Constituents measured

  • Gallic acid3
  • P-coumaric acid2

Plant parts

  • Seed5

Preparations

  • Solvent extraction5

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
Gallic acidSeedSolvent extraction≥ 24.83 Milligram/kilogramLC-MS/MSResolve DOI
Gallic acidSeedSolvent extraction≤ 65.92 Milligram/kilogramLC-MS/MSResolve DOI
P-coumaric acidSeedSolvent extraction≤ 7.5 Milligram/kilogramLC-MS/MSResolve DOI
P-coumaric acidSeedSolvent extraction≥ 2.23 Milligram/kilogramLC-MS/MSResolve DOI
Gallic acidSeedSolvent extraction1 Milligram/gramStandard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)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.

  1. Karamac, Magdalena., Kosinska, Agnieszka., Pegg, Ronald B. Content of gallic acid in selected plant extracts. Polish journal of food and nutrition sciences, 2006, vol. 15, no. 1, p. 55-58.
  2. Gultekin-Ozguven, Mine., Davarci, Fatma., Pasli, Ayca A., Demir, Nalan., Ozcelik, Beraat. Determination of phenolic compounds by ultra high liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry: Applications in nuts . Lwt-food science and technology, 2015, vol. 64, no. 1, p. 42-49. DOI

Boundary

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