Botanical species · safety record

Solanum tuberosum

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 18 constituent measurements and 11 adverse-effect records for Solanum tuberosum. 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: Solanum tuberosum L.

18Constituent measurements

11Safety records

7Cited sources

89Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 89 licensed products naming Solanum tuberosum 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

Fruit
Potato protein
Solanum tuberosum - Tuber
Tuber
Whole plant
Whole plant(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
Alpha-chaconine	Roots and other underground parts used as staple food	Solvent extraction	≤ 6818.4 Milligram/100 gram	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	Resolve DOI
Alpha-chaconine	Roots and other underground parts used as staple food	Solvent extraction	≥ 3.94 Milligram/100 gram	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	Resolve DOI
Alpha-chaconine	Roots and other underground parts used as staple food	Solvent extraction	≤ 6.25 Milligram/100 gram	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	Resolve DOI
Alpha-chaconine	Roots and other underground parts used as staple food	Solvent extraction	≥ 0.3 Milligram/100 gram	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	Resolve DOI
Alpha-chaconine	Leaves	Solvent extraction	≤ 55.73 Milligram/100 gram	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	Resolve DOI
Alpha-chaconine	Leaves	Solvent extraction	≥ 1.51 Milligram/100 gram	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	Resolve DOI
Alpha-solanine	Roots and other underground parts used as staple food	Solvent extraction	≤ 3.2 Milligram/100 gram	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	Resolve DOI
Alpha-solanine	Leaves	Solvent extraction	≥ 0.64 Milligram/100 gram	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	Resolve DOI
Alpha-solanine	Roots and other underground parts used as staple food	Solvent extraction	≥ 0.05 Milligram/100 gram	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	Resolve DOI
Alpha-solanine	Roots and other underground parts used as staple food	Solvent extraction	≤ 7097.74 Milligram/100 gram	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	Resolve DOI
Alpha-solanine	Roots and other underground parts used as staple food	Solvent extraction	≥ 4.01 Milligram/100 gram	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	Resolve DOI
Alpha-solanine	Leaves	Solvent extraction	≤ 22.6 Milligram/100 gram	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	Resolve DOI
Calystegine a	Roots and other underground parts used as staple food	—	≤ 87.1 Milligram/kilogram	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Calystegine b2	Roots and other underground parts used as staple food	—	≥ 0.8 Milligram/kilogram	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Calystegine b2	Roots and other underground parts used as staple food	—	≤ 380 Milligram/kilogram	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Lectins	Unspecified	—	—	Unspecified	Resolve DOI
Saponins	Roots and other underground parts used as staple food	Powder	—	Phytochemical screening	Resolve DOI
Steroidal alkaloids	Roots and other underground parts used as staple food	Powder	—	Phytochemical screening	Resolve DOI

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
Hepatotoxicity	Liver	Roots and other underground parts used as staple food	Powder	House mouse (as animal)	Acute toxicity	Resolve DOI
Hepatotoxicity	Liver	Roots and other underground parts used as staple food	Powder	House mouse (as animal)	Acute toxicity	Resolve DOI
Hepatotoxicity	Liver	Roots and other underground parts used as staple food	Powder	Rat (as animal)	Short-term toxicity	Resolve DOI
Nephrotoxicity	Urogenital: kidneys	Roots and other underground parts used as staple food	Powder	House mouse (as animal)	Acute toxicity	Resolve DOI
Nephrotoxicity	Urogenital: kidneys	Roots and other underground parts used as staple food	Powder	House mouse (as animal)	Acute toxicity	Resolve DOI
Systemic	—	Roots and other underground parts used as staple food	Powder	Rat (as animal)	Short-term toxicity	Resolve DOI
Systemic	Cardiovascular / haematological	Roots and other underground parts used as staple food	Powder	Rat (as animal)	Short-term toxicity	Resolve DOI
Teratogenic	Uterus	Sprout	Solvent extraction	Hamster (as animal)	Reproduction toxicity	Resolve DOI
Teratogenic	Uterus	Sprout	Solvent extraction	Hamster (as animal)	Reproduction toxicity	Resolve DOI
Teratogenic	Uterus	Sprout	Solvent extraction	Hamster (as animal)	Reproduction toxicity	Resolve DOI
Systemic	Liver	Sprout	—	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.

Velasco-Chong, JR., Herrera-Calderon, O., Rojas-Armas, JP., Hanari-Quispe, RD., Figueroa-Salvador, L., Pena-Rojas, G., Andia-Ayme, V., Yuli-Posadas, RA., Yepes-Perez, AF., Aguilar, C. TOCOSH FLOUR (Solanum tuberosum L.): A Toxicological Assessment of Traditional Peruvian Fermented Potatoes. Foods, 2020, vol. 9, no. 6. DOI
Friedman, M. Analysis of biologically active compounds in potatoes (Solanum tuberosum), tomatoes (Lycopersicon esculentum), and jimson weed (Datura stramonium) seeds. Journal of chromatography a, 2004, vol. 1054, no. 1-2, p. 143-155. DOI
Phillips, B.J., Hughes, J.A., Phillips, J.C., Walters, D.G., Anderson, D., Tahourdin, C.S.M. A study of the toxic hazard that might be associated with the consumption of green potato tops. Food and chemical toxicology, 1996, vol. 34, no. 5, p. 439-448. DOI
Aziz, A., Randhawa, MA., Butt, MS., Asghar, A., Yasin, M., Shibamoto, T. Glycoalkaloids (alpha-Chaconine and alpha-Solanine) Contents of Selected Pakistani Potato Cultivars and Their Dietary Intake Assessment. Journal of food science, 2012, vol. 77, no. 3, p. T58-T61. DOI
Pomilio, A.B., Falzoni, E.M., Vitale, A.A. Toxic chemical compounds of the Solanaceae. Natural product communications, 2008, vol. 3, no. 4, p. 593-628. DOI
Gaffield, W., Keeler, RF. Induction of terata in hamsters by solanidane alkaloids derived from Solanum tuberosum. Chemical research in toxicology, 1996, vol. 9, no. 2, p. 426-433. DOI
Friedman, M., Henika, P.R., Mackey, B.E. Feeding of potato, tomato and eggplant alkaloids affects food consumption and body and liver weights in mice. Journal of nutrition, 1996, vol. 126, no. 4, p. 989-999.

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.

Continue

Independent literature