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Daucus carota

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 6 constituent measurements for Daucus carota. 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: Daucus carota L.

6Constituent measurements
0Safety records
3Cited sources
469Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 469 licensed products naming Daucus carota 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

  • All-trans beta carotene
  • Carrot
  • Chili seed
  • Daucus Carota - Root
  • Daucus carota
  • Dried aerial part(s)
  • Fruit
  • Grass(es)

What the records describe

Constituents measured

  • Nitrate2
  • Nitrites2
  • Acetaldehyde1
  • Myristicin1

Plant parts

  • Unspecified5
  • Roots and other underground parts1

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
MyristicinRoots and other underground parts—0.16 Milligram/kilogram—Resolve DOI
AcetaldehydeUnspecified—1.91 Milligram/kilogramGaschromatography (GC)No resolvable identifier
NitrateUnspecified—≤ 323 ppmColorimetry, Spectroscopy (Spectrometry) and PhotometryNo resolvable identifier
NitrateUnspecified—≥ 253 ppmColorimetry, Spectroscopy (Spectrometry) and PhotometryNo resolvable identifier
NitritesUnspecified—≤ 0.26 ppmColorimetry, Spectroscopy (Spectrometry) and PhotometryNo resolvable identifier
NitritesUnspecified—≥ 0.25 ppmColorimetry, Spectroscopy (Spectrometry) and PhotometryNo 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. Hallstrom, H., Thuvander, A. Toxicological evaluation of myristicin. Natural toxins, 1997, vol. 5, no. 5, p. 186-192. DOI
  2. Uebelacker, Michael., Lachenmeier, Dirk W. Quantitative determination of acetaldehyde in foods using automated digestion with simulated gastric fluid followed by headspace gas chromatography. Journal of analytical methods in chemistry, 2011, vol. 907317, p. 13 pp.
  3. Neata, Gabriela., Stoian, Elena., Mocuta, Dorina., Temocico, Georgeta., Fintineru, Gina., Georgescu, Mihaela. Nitrates and nitrites as source of n-nitroso compounds. Romanian biotechnological letters, 2013, vol. 18, no. 5, p. 8583-8586.

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