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Prunus mume

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 7 constituent measurements for Prunus mume. 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 mume (Siebold) Siebold & Zucc.

7Constituent measurements

0Safety records

5Cited sources

126Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 126 licensed products naming Prunus mume 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
Extract Type TBA

Source material stated

Dried fruit
Flower
Fruit
Fruit (roasted)
Ripe fruit(s)

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
3,4-dihydroxybenzaldehyde	Seed	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	Resolve DOI
Amygdalin	Seed	Solvent extraction	≤ 47 Gram/kilogram	Unspecified	No resolvable identifier
Benzaldehyde	Unspecified	Essential oil	62.4 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier
Benzaldehyde	Seed	Solvent extraction	1.9 Percent	Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)	No resolvable identifier
Cyanogenic glycosides	Fruit unspecified	—	45.87 Microgram/gram	—	No resolvable identifier
Eugenol	Fruit unspecified	Essential oil	10.9 Percent	Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)	No resolvable identifier
Prunasin	Seed	Solvent extraction	≤ 10 Gram/kilogram	Unspecified	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.

Kwon, Young Ju., Kim, Young Hoi., Kwag, Jae Jin., Kim, Kun Soo., Yang, Kwang Kyu. Volatile components of apricot (Prunus armeniaca var. ansu Max.) and Japanese apricot (Prunus mume Sieb. et Zucc.). Han'guk nonghwa hakhoechi, 1990, p. 319-324.
Kameoka, Hiromu., Kitagawa, Chuji. Constituents of the fruits of Prunus mume Sieb. and Zucc. Nippon nogei kagaku kaishi, 1976, p. 389-393.
OHTSUBO, T., IKEDA, F. SEASONAL-CHANGES OF CYANOGENIC GLYCOSIDES IN MUME (PRUNUS-MUME SIEB ET ZUCC) SEEDS . Journal of the japanese society for horticultural science, 1994, vol. 62, no. 4, p. 695-700.
Kono, Ryohei., Nomura, Sachiko., Okuno, Yoshiharu., Nakamura, Misa., Maeno, Akihiro., Kagiya, Tomoko., Tokuda, Akihiko., Inada, Ken-ichi., Matsuno, Akira., Utsunomiya, Tomoko., Utsunomiya, Hirotoshi. 3,4-Dihydroxybenzaldehyde Derived from Prunus mume Seed Inhibits Oxidative Stress and Enhances Estradiol Secretion in Human Ovarian Granulosa Tumor Cells. ACTA HISTOCHEMICA ET CYTOCHEMICA, 2014, vol. 47, no. 3, p. 103-112. DOI
Cho, Hye-Jeon., Do, Byung-Kyung., Shim, Soon-Mi., Kwon, Hoonjeong., Lee, Dong-Ha., Nah, Ahn-Hee., Choi, Youn-Ju., Lee, Sook-Yeon. Determination of cyanogenic compunds in edible plants by ion chromatography. Toxicological Research (Seoul, Republic of Korea), 2013, p. 143-147.

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