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Cucurbita pepo

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 10 constituent measurements for Cucurbita pepo. 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 pepo L.

10Constituent measurements

0Safety records

4Cited sources

643Licensed products (Canada)

Also recorded as

Cucurbita maxima Duchesne
Cucurbita moschata Duchesne

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 643 licensed products naming Cucurbita pepo 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
Extract Type TBA
Fresh

Source material stated

Crushed seed
Cucurbita pepo
Cucurbita pepo - Fruit
Cucurbita pepo - seed
Curcubita pepo - Fruit
Curcubita pepo - seed
Flower
Flowers

What the records describe

Constituents measured

Plant parts

Preparations

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
Alkaloids	Seed	Powder	—	Phytochemical screening	Resolve DOI
Saponins	Seed	Powder	—	Phytochemical screening	Resolve DOI
Arctigenin	Seed	Solvent extraction	—	Mass Spectroscopy and hyphenated methods without chromatography	No resolvable identifier
Lariciresinol	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	64 Microgram/100 gram	LC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Lectins	Seed	Solvent extraction	—	Chromatographic tests	No resolvable identifier
Lignans	Seed	Solvent extraction	—	Mass Spectroscopy and hyphenated methods without chromatography	No resolvable identifier
Matairesinol	Seed	Solvent extraction	—	Mass Spectroscopy and hyphenated methods without chromatography	No resolvable identifier
Pinoresinol	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	37 Microgram/100 gram	LC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Secoisolarisiresinol	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	18 Microgram/100 gram	LC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Secoisolarisiresinol	Seed	Solvent extraction	—	Mass Spectroscopy and hyphenated methods without 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.

Sarkar, Subodh Kumar., Hossain, M. Tofazzal., Uddin, M. Belal., Absar, Nurul. Purification, characterization and physico-chemical properties of three galactose-specific lectins from pumpkin (Cucurbita maxima) seed kernels . Journal of the chinese chemical society, 2007, vol. 54, no. 6, p. 1433-1442.
Milder, Ivon E. J., Arts, Ilja C. W., van de Putte, Betty., Venema, Dini P., Hollman, Peter C. H. Lignan contents of Dutch plant foods: A database including lariciresinol, pinoresinol, secoisolariciresinol and matairesinol. British journal of nutrition, 2005, vol. 93, no. 3, p. 393-402.
Richter, Dagmar., Abarzua, Sibylle., Chrobak, Mareike., Vrekoussis, Thomas., Weissenbacher, Tobias., Kuhn, Christina., Schulze, Sandra., Kupka, Markus S., Friese, Klaus., Briese, Volker. Effects of Phytoestrogen Extracts Isolated from Pumpkin Seeds on Estradiol Production and ER/PR Expression in Breast Cancer and Trophoblast Tumor Cells. Nutrition and cancer, 2013, vol. 65, no. 5, p. 739-745.
Ojiako, O. A., Igwe, C. U. Nutritional and anti-nutritional compositions of Cleome rutidosperma, Lagenaria siceraria, and Cucurbita maxima seeds from Nigeria . Journal of medicinal food, 2007, vol. 10, no. 4, p. 735-738. 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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