Botanical species · safety record

Cucurbita moschata

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 4 constituent measurements and 2 adverse-effect records for Cucurbita moschata. 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: Cucurbita moschata Duchesne

4Constituent measurements

2Safety records

3Cited sources

56Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 56 licensed products naming Cucurbita moschata 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
Seed
Seed extract
Seed(s)
Sprout(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
Amygdalin	Seed	Solvent extraction	0.11 Milligram/gram	Coproantigen ELISA	No resolvable identifier
Cyanogenic glycosides	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	0.43 Percent	Classification not possible	No resolvable identifier
Oxalates	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	0.21 Percent	Classification not possible	No resolvable identifier
Trypsin inhibitors	Fruit unspecified	—	6.32 International Unit/gram	Classification not possible	No 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.

Effect	Target tissue	Plant part	Preparation	Test organism	Test type	Source
Digestive	Digestive	—	—	—	In vitro	Resolve DOI
Digestive	Digestive	—	—	—	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.

Bolarinwa, Islamiyat F., Orfila, Caroline., Morgan, Michael R. A. Development and application of an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the quantification of amygdalin, a cyanogenic glycoside, in food. Journal of agricultural and food chemistry, 2014, p. 6299-6305.
Song, Yi., Zhang, Yuyu., Zhou, Tingting., Zhang, Hua., Hu, Xiaosong., Li, Quanhong. A preliminary study of monosaccharide composition and alpha-glucosidase inhibitory effect of polysaccharides from pumpkin (Cucurbita moschata) fruit . International journal of food science and technology, 2012, vol. 47, no. 2, p. 357-361. DOI
Franca, O.N. Antinutritional evaluation and in vitro protein digestibility of some Nigerian cucurbits. Pakistan Journal of Nutrition, 2012, vol. 11, no. 3, p. 208-210.

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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