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Cydonia oblonga

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 5 constituent measurements for Cydonia oblonga. 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: Cydonia oblonga Mill.

5Constituent measurements

0Safety records

3Cited sources

1Licensed products (Canada)

Also recorded as

Cydonia oblonga P.Miller

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 1 licensed products naming Cydonia oblonga 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.

Source material stated

New material

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
Benzaldehyde	Leaves	Essential oil	≤ 12.8 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Benzaldehyde	Leaves	Essential oil	≥ 4.9 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Isoflavones	Unspecified	Solvent extraction	2 Microgram/100 gram	Unspecified	No resolvable identifier
Lignans	Unspecified	Solvent extraction	7 Microgram/100 gram	Unspecified	No resolvable identifier
Tannins	Leaves	—	11 Percent	Phytochemical screening	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.

Polonia, J. Barros. Cydonia oblonga. Botanical, chemical, and pharmacodynamic study of the leaves. Anais fac. farm. porto, 1957, p. 5-123.
Kuhnle, Gunter G. C., Dell'Aquila, Caterina., Aspinall, Sue M., Runswick, Shirley A., Joosen, Annemiek M. C. P., Mulligan, Angela A., Bingham, Sheila A. Phytoestrogen content of fruits and vegetables commonly consumed in the UK based on LC-MS and 13C-labelled standards. Food Chemistry, 2009, p. 542-554.
Erdogan, T., Gonenc, T., Hortoglu, Z. S., Demirci, B., Baser, K. H. C., Kivcak, B. Chemical composition of the essential oil of quince (Cydonia oblonga Miller) leaves. Medicinal aromatic plants, 2012, p. 1000e134/1-1000e134/3.

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