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Prunus cerasus

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 8 constituent measurements for Prunus cerasus. 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: Prunus cerasus L.

8Constituent measurements

0Safety records

3Cited sources

399Licensed products (Canada)

Also recorded as

Cerasus vulgaris Mill.

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 399 licensed products naming Prunus cerasus 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

Cherry stem
Edible fruit part
Fruit
Fruit concentrate
Fruit extract
Fruit flesh
Fruit skin
Peduncle

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
Genistein	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	44 Milligram-equivalent/kilogram	LC-MS/MS	Resolve DOI
Benzaldehyde	Fruit unspecified	—	≥ 1.1174 Percent Area	GC-MS (Q)	No resolvable identifier
Benzaldehyde	Fruit unspecified	—	≤ 1.6176 Percent Area	GC-MS (Q)	No resolvable identifier
Benzaldehyde	Fruit unspecified	Essential oil	—	Gaschromatography (GC)	No resolvable identifier
Eugenol	Fruit unspecified	Essential oil	—	Gaschromatography (GC)	No resolvable identifier
Gallocatechin	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	≤ 17.2 Milligram/kilogram	HPLC-UV	No resolvable identifier
P-coumaric acid	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	≥ 11.3 Milligram/kilogram	HPLC-UV	No resolvable identifier
P-coumaric acid	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	≤ 12.1 Milligram/kilogram	HPLC-UV	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.

Levaj, B., Dragovic-Uzelac, V., Delonga, K., Ganic, KK., Banovic, M., Kovacevic, DB. Polyphenols and Volatiles in Fruits of Two Sour Cherry Cultivars, Some Berry Fruits and Their Jams. FOOD TECHNOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY, 2010, vol. 48, no. 4, p. 538-547.
Schmid, Wolfgang., Grosch, Werner. Identification of highly aromatic volatile flavor compounds from morello cherries (Prunus cerasus L.). Zeitschrift fuer lebensmittel-untersuchung und -forschung, 1986, p. 407-412.
Abranko, Laszlo., Nagy, Adam., Szilvassy, Blanka., Stefanovits-Banyai, Eva., Hegedus, Attila. Genistein isoflavone glycoconjugates in sour cherry (Prunus cerasus L.) cultivars . Food chemistry, 2015, vol. 166, p. 215-222. 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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