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Vaccinium vitis-idaea

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 2 constituent measurements for Vaccinium vitis-idaea. 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: Vaccinium vitis-idaea L.

2Constituent measurements

0Safety records

2Cited sources

47Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 47 licensed products naming Vaccinium vitis-idaea 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
Fruit extract
Jeunes pousses
Leaf
Vaccinium vitis-idaea
Vaccinium vitis-idaea - fruit
Young shoots

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
Proanthocyanidins (condensed tannins)	Live plants	Solvent extraction	—	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)	No resolvable identifier
Scopoletin	Leaves	Solvent extraction	12.5 Microgram/gram	Standard Chromatographic tests (paper- thin layer- and column chromatography)	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.

Waksmundzka-Hajnos, M., Smolarz, H.D., Matysik, G. Quantitative determination of scopoletin in some herbs from the Ericaceae family by thin-layer chromatography and densitometry. Acta poloniae pharmaceutica - drug research, 1997, vol. 54, no. 3, p. 237-241.
Morimoto, Satoshi., Nonaka, Genichiro., Nishioka, Itsuo. Tannins and related compounds. LX. Isolation and characterization of proanthocyanidins with a doubly-linked unit from Vaccinium vitis-idaea L. Chemical Pharmaceutical Bulletin, 1988, p. 33-38.

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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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