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Manilkara zapota

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 10 constituent measurements for Manilkara zapota. 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: Manilkara zapota (L.) P.Royen

10Constituent measurements

0Safety records

6Cited sources

0Licensed products (Canada)

Also recorded as

Achras sapota L.

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

No Health Canada licensed natural health product in the snapshot names this species as a medicinal ingredient under this exact binomial. Absence here means absence from this one register under this one name, not absence from trade, and not a safety verdict.

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	Fruit peel	Essential oil	2.2 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Epigallocatechins	Fruit peel	Solvent extraction	—	HPLC with standard detection methods	Resolve DOI
Gallic acid	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	—	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Gallocatechin	Fruit peel	Solvent extraction	—	HPLC with standard detection methods	Resolve DOI
Hydroquinone	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	—	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Saponins	Seed	Solvent extraction	—	—	Resolve DOI
Acetaldehyde	Fruit unspecified	—	—	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Alkaloids	Flower	Solvent extraction	—	Colorimetry, Spectroscopy (Spectrometry) and Photometry	No resolvable identifier
Saponins	Flower	Solvent extraction	—	Colorimetry, Spectroscopy (Spectrometry) and Photometry	No resolvable identifier
Tannins	Flower	Solvent extraction	—	Colorimetry, Spectroscopy (Spectrometry) and Photometry	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.

Das, Susmita., Dutta, Mainak., Chaudhury, Koel., De, Bratati. Metabolomic and chemometric study of Achras sapota L. fruit extracts for identification of metabolites contributing to the inhibition of alpha-amylase and alpha-glucosidase . European food research and technology, 2016, vol. 242, no. 5, p. 733-743. DOI
Sumithra, P., Gricilda, Shoba F., Vimala, G., Sathya, J., Sankar, V., Saraswathi, R., Jayapriya, G. Anti-cancer activity of Annona squamosa and Manilkara zapota flower extract against MCF-7 cell line. Pharmacia sinica, 2014, vol. 5, no. 6), 98-10, p. 7 pp.
SINGH, PDA., SIMON, OR., WEST, ME. ACUTE TOXICITY OF SEEDS OF THE SAPODILLA (ACHRAS-SAPOTA L). Toxicon, 1984, vol. 22, no. 1, p. 145-147. DOI
Pino, J.A., Marbot, R., Aguero, J. Volatile components of sapodilla fruit (manilkara achras L.). Journal of essential oil research, 2003, vol. 15, no. 6, p. 374-375. DOI
Laohakunjit, Natta., Kerdchoechuen, Orapin., Matta, Frank B., Silva, Juan L., Holmes, William E. Postharvest survey of volatile compounds in five tropical fruits using headspace-solid phase microextraction (HS-SPME) . Hortscience, 2007, vol. 42, no. 2, p. 309-314.
Wang, Hongyu., Liu, Tingting., Song, Lixia., Huang, Dejian. Profiles and alpha-Amylase Inhibition Activity of Proanthocyanidins in Unripe Manilkara zapota (Chiku) . Journal of agricultural and food chemistry, 2012, vol. 60, no. 12, p. 3098-3104. 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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