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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food. ...Hippocrates |
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Melatonin: Natural food and herbal sources of melatonin
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Table 2: Melatonin sources (Hardeland and Pandi-Perumal, 2005).
| Melatonin source | Melatonin content [ng/g] |
| Feverfew, fresh leaf |
> 1,300
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| Feverfew, dried leaf |
>7,000
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| Almond seed |
39
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| Pimpinella peregrina, dried root |
38
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| Sunflower seed |
29
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| Fennel seed |
28
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| Lemon verbena, young plant |
22
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| Balm mint, young plant |
16
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| Green cardamom seed |
15
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| Art cherry, Montmorency, fruit |
15–18
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| Anise seed |
7
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| Tall fescue seed |
5
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| oat seed |
1.8
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| Indian corn seed |
1.3
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| Rice seed |
1
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| Red radish root tuber |
0.6
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| Japanese radish , stem and leaves |
0.6
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| Tomato fruit |
0.5
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| Ginger tuber |
0.5
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| Banana fruit |
0.5
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Melatonin data sources and references:
Melatonin, a potent agent in antioxidative defense: Actions as a natural food constituent, gastrointestinal factor, drug and prodrug. Nutrition & Metabolism 2005, 2:22 doi:10.1186/1743-7075-2-22 ---(Table 2 )
Russel J. Reiter and Dan-Xian Tan. 2002. Melatonin: An antioxidant in edible plant. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 957: 341-344. (Table 1)
S. J Konturek, P. C. Konturek, T. Brzozowski. 2006. Melatonin in gastroprotection against stress-inuduced acute gastric lesions and in healing of chronic gastric ulcers. Journal of physiology and pharmacology, 57( Suppl 5): 51-66.
Guofang Chen, Yushu Huo, Dun-Xian Tan, Zhen Liang, Weibing Zhang, Yukui Zhang. 2003. Melatonin in Chinese medicinal herbs. Life Sciences, 73: 19-26.