Botanical species · safety record

Simmondsia chinensis

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 9 constituent measurements and 1 adverse-effect record for Simmondsia chinensis. 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: Simmondsia chinensis (Link) C.K. Schneid.

9Constituent measurements

1Safety records

3Cited sources

4Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 4 licensed products naming Simmondsia chinensis 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.

Source material stated

Seed
Seed(s)

What the records describe

Constituents measured

Plant parts

Preparations

Effect types

Target tissues

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
Simmondsin	Stem / stalk	Solvent extraction	≤ 0.71 Percent	HPLC with standard detection methods	No resolvable identifier
Simmondsin	Stem / stalk	Solvent extraction	≥ 0.63 Percent	HPLC with standard detection methods	No resolvable identifier
Simmondsin	Wood	Solvent extraction	0.45 Percent	HPLC with standard detection methods	No resolvable identifier
Simmondsin	Seed	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	No resolvable identifier
Simmondsin	Seed	Solvent extraction	≤ 2.34 Percent	HPLC with standard detection methods	No resolvable identifier
Simmondsin	Seed	Solvent extraction	≥ 2.27 Percent	HPLC with standard detection methods	No resolvable identifier
Simmondsin	Leaves	Solvent extraction	≤ 0.23 Percent	HPLC with standard detection methods	No resolvable identifier
Simmondsin	Leaves	Solvent extraction	≥ 0.19 Percent	HPLC with standard detection methods	No resolvable identifier
Simmondsin	Flowering top	Solvent extraction	0.22 Percent	HPLC with standard detection methods	No resolvable identifier

Recorded adverse effects

Adverse effects reported in the source literature, most often in animal or laboratory models at a stated preparation and dose.

Effect	Target tissue	Plant part	Preparation	Test organism	Test type	Source
Digestive	Digestive	Seed	—	House mouse (as animal)	Short-term toxicity	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.

Verbiscar, A.J., Banigan, T.F., Weber, C.W., Reid, B.L., Trei, J.E., Nelson, E.A., Raffauf, R.F., Kosersky, D. Detoxification of jojoba meal. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 1980, vol. 28, no. 3, p. 571-578.
Verbiscar, Anthony J., Banigan, Thomas F. Composition of jojoba seeds and foliage. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 1978, p. 1456-1459.
Bouali, Abderrahime., Bellirou, Ahmed., Boukhatem, Noureddin., Hamal, Abdellah., Bouammali, Boufelja. Enzymatic detoxification of jojoba meal and effect of the resulting meal on food intake in rats. Natural Product Research, 2008, p. 638-647.

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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