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Psidium guajava

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 5 constituent measurements for Psidium guajava. 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: Psidium guajava L.

5Constituent measurements

0Safety records

2Cited sources

47Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 47 licensed products naming Psidium guajava 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

Source material stated

Fruit
Fruit extract
Leaf
Psidium guajava - Fruit

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
Isoflavones	Leaves	Solvent extraction	—	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	Resolve DOI
Alkaloids	Live plants	Solvent extraction	—	Phytochemical screening	No resolvable identifier
Cardiac glycosides	Live plants	Solvent extraction	—	Phytochemical screening	No resolvable identifier
Saponins	Live plants	Solvent extraction	—	Phytochemical screening	No resolvable identifier
Tannins	Live plants	Solvent extraction	—	Phytochemical screening	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.

Godwill, E.A., Paul, N., Chidubem, N.J., Innocent, O.T., Chinenye, E.B. Comparative qualitative analysis of the phytochemical load of water, methanol, ethyl acetate and hexane extracts of six selected medicinal plants. International Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemical Research, 2013, vol. 5, no. 3, p. 164-167.
Lapcik, O., Klejdus, B., Kokoska, L., Davidova, M., Afandi, K., Kuban, V., Hampl, R. Identification of isoflavones in Acca sellowiana and two Psidium species (Myrtaceae) . Biochemical systematics and ecology, 2005, vol. 33, no. 10, p. 983-992. DOI

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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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