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Rivina humilis

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 4 constituent measurements for Rivina humilis. 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: Rivina humilis L.

4Constituent measurements

0Safety records

3Cited 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

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
Betalains	Fruit unspecified	Fresh	3.65 Gram/litre	Colorimetry, Spectroscopy (Spectrometry) and Photometry	Resolve DOI
Betalains	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	3.5 Gram/kilogram	HPLC-DAD	Resolve DOI
Oxalates	Fruit unspecified	Solvent extraction	25.4 Milligram/100 gram	HPLC-DAD	Resolve DOI
Betalains	Aerial part of plants	Solvent extraction	35 Percent Area	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.

Khan, Mohammad Imtiyaj., Joseph, K. M. Denny., Muralidhara., Ramesh, H. P., Giridhar, P., Ravishankar, G. A. Acute, subacute and subchronic safety assessment of betalains rich Rivina humilis L. berry juice in rats . Food and chemical toxicology, 2011, vol. 49, no. 12, p. 3154-3157. DOI
Khan, Mohammad Imtiyaj., Harsha, P. S. C. Sri., Giridhar, P., Ravishankar, G. A. Pigment identification, nutritional composition, bioactivity, and in vitro cancer cell cytotoxicity of Rivina humilis L. berries, potential source of betalains . Lwt-food science and technology, 2012, vol. 47, no. 2, p. 315-323. DOI
Strack, D., Reznik, H. High-performance liquid chromatographic analysis of betaxanthins in Centrospermae (Caryophyllales). Zeitschrift fuer pflanzenphysiologie, 1979, p. 163-167.

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