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Mentha aquatica

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 19 constituent measurements for Mentha aquatica. 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: Mentha aquatica L.

19Constituent measurements
0Safety records
5Cited sources
0Licensed products (Canada)

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

  • 1,8-cineole7
  • Menthofuran6
  • Myrcene3
  • (+)-pulegone1
  • Eugenol1
  • Menthone1

Plant parts

  • Leaves7
  • Aerial part of plants6
  • Live plants3
  • Stem3
  • stalk3

Preparations

  • Essential oil19

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
1,8-cineoleLeavesEssential oil≥ 5 PercentGaschromatography (GC)Resolve DOI
1,8-cineoleLeavesEssential oil≤ 27 PercentGaschromatography (GC)Resolve DOI
MenthofuranLeavesEssential oil≤ 58 PercentGaschromatography (GC)Resolve DOI
MenthofuranLeavesEssential oil≥ 14 PercentGaschromatography (GC)Resolve DOI
(+)-pulegoneLeavesEssential oil14.39 Percent AreaGaschromatography (GC)No resolvable identifier
1,8-cineoleLeavesEssential oil1.49 Percent AreaGaschromatography (GC)No resolvable identifier
1,8-cineoleLive plantsEssential oil1716.44 Milligram/kilogramGC-MSNo resolvable identifier
1,8-cineoleStem / stalkEssential oil5.95 PercentGC-MSNo resolvable identifier
1,8-cineoleAerial part of plantsEssential oil≥ 11.8 PercentGC-MSNo resolvable identifier
1,8-cineoleAerial part of plantsEssential oil≤ 20.2 PercentGC-MSNo resolvable identifier
EugenolLive plantsEssential oil18.81 Milligram/kilogramGC-MSNo resolvable identifier
MenthofuranLive plantsEssential oil3978.08 Milligram/kilogramGC-MSNo resolvable identifier
MenthofuranStem / stalkEssential oil58.6 PercentGC-MSNo resolvable identifier
MenthofuranAerial part of plantsEssential oil≥ 19 PercentGC-MSNo resolvable identifier
MenthofuranAerial part of plantsEssential oil≤ 24.5 PercentGC-MSNo resolvable identifier
MenthoneLeavesEssential oil77.76 Percent AreaGaschromatography (GC)No resolvable identifier
MyrceneAerial part of plantsEssential oil≤ 1.8 PercentGC-MSNo resolvable identifier
MyrceneAerial part of plantsEssential oil≥ 0.7 PercentGC-MSNo resolvable identifier
MyrceneStem / stalkEssential oil1.66 PercentGC-MSNo 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. Agostini, Fabiana., Atti dos Santos, Ana Cristina., Rossato, Marcelo., Pansera, Marcia Regina., dos Santos, Paula Luciana., Serafini, Luciana Atti., Molon, Rosangela., Moyna, Patrick. Essential Oil Yield and Composition of Lamiaceae Species Growing in Southern Brazil. BRAZILIAN ARCHIVES OF BIOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY, 2009, vol. 52, no. 2, p. 473-478.
  2. Baser, K. H. C., Kurkcuoglu, M., Demirci, B., Ozek, T., Tarimcilar, G. Essential oils of Mentha species from Marmara region of Turkey. JOURNAL OF ESSENTIAL OIL RESEARCH, 2012, vol. 24, no. 3, p. 265-272. DOI
  3. Jerkovic, I., Mastelic, J. Composition of free and glycosidically bound volatiles of Mentha aquatica L. . Croatica chemica acta, 2001, vol. 74, no. 2, p. 431-439.
  4. Sacco, Tommasco., Maffei, Massimo. Mentha aquatica var. hypeuria Briq., a selection particularly rich in menthofuran. Developments in food science, 1988, p. 141-145.
  5. Bozin, Biljana., Mimica-Dukic, Neda., Anackov, Goran., Zlatkovic, Bojan., Igic, Ruzica. Variability of content and composition of Mentha aquatica L. (Lamiaceae) essential oil in different phenophases. Journal of essential oil-bearing plants, 2006, p. 223-229.

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