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Crocus sativus

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 4 constituent measurements for Crocus sativus. 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: Crocus sativus L.

4Constituent measurements
0Safety records
3Cited sources
314Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 314 licensed products naming Crocus sativus 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

  • Crocus sativus - Stigma
  • Crocus sativus - Stigma and style
  • Dried stigma
  • Dried stigmas
  • Flower
  • Flowers
  • Leaf
  • New material

What the records describe

Constituents measured

  • Camphor1
  • Fenchone1
  • Saponins1
  • Triterpene saponins1

Plant parts

  • Bulb2
  • Flowering top2
  • clove2

Preparations

  • Essential oil2
  • Solvent extraction2

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
SaponinsBulb / cloveSolvent extraction—High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)Resolve DOI
Triterpene saponinsBulb / cloveSolvent extraction—Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)Resolve DOI
CamphorFlowering topEssential oil3.5 PercentGaschromatography (GC)No resolvable identifier
FenchoneFlowering topEssential oil1 PercentGaschromatography (GC)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. Akhmedov, A. I., Goryaev, M. I., Chogovadze, Sh. K., Dembitskii, A. D. Substances present in essential oils. 55. Essential oil of Crocus sativus. Izvestiya akademii nauk kazakhskoi ssr, seriya khimicheskaya, 1972, p. 56-59.
  2. Castro-Diaz, Nathaly., Salaun, Bruno., Perret, Rachel., Sierro, Sophie., Romero, Jackeline F., Fernandez, Jose-Antonio., Rubio-Moraga, Angela., Romero, Pedro. Saponins from the Spanish saffron Crocus sativus are efficient adjuvants for protein-based vaccines. VACCINE, 2012, vol. 30, no. 2, p. 388-397. DOI
  3. Rubio-Moraga, Angela., Gerwig, Gerrit J., Castro-Diaz, Natali., Luisa Jimeno, Maria., Escribano, Julio., Fernandez, Jose-Antonio., Kamerling, Johannis P. Triterpenoid saponins from corms of Crocus sativus: Localization, extraction and characterization. INDUSTRIAL CROPS AND PRODUCTS, 2011, vol. 34, no. 3, p. 1401-1409. DOI

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