Aegle marmelos Fruit Powder

Aegle marmelos Fruit Powder

DEFINITION

The article consists of the dried ripe or unripe fruit of Aegle marmelos (L.) Corréa (Family Rutaceae), reduced to powder or very fine powder. It contains NLT 0.2% of marmelosin on the dried basis.

POTENTIAL CONFOUNDING MATERIALS

Limonia acidissima L.

Garcinia x mangostana L.

CONSTITUENTS OF INTEREST

Furocoumarin: Marmelosin

IDENTIFICATION

• A. Botanical Characteristics

Macroscopic: Yellow powder

Microscopic: Powdered dry fruit pulp is yellowish in color with spots of pale brown-colored dotted structures, sticky and nearly hygroscopic. Thick-walled, polygonal, and irregular-shaped parenchyma cells from the pulp as a major component...