Saponins (Latin "sapon", soap + "-in", one of) are bitter-tasting, usually toxic plant-derived secondary metabolites. They are organic chemicals and have...

Aggregation number = 60 Tschesche, R.; Wulff, G. (January 1963). "Über saponine der spirostanolreihe—IX". Tetrahedron (in German). 19 (4): 621–634. doi:10...

published the results of this research in 1860 in a book entitled Du coaltar saponiné, désinfectant énergique (Saponinated coal tar, an energetic disinfectant)...

ISBN 978-0-429-02009-4. S2CID 70482526. Lemaire J (1860). Du Coaltar saponiné, désinfectant énergique, de ses applications à l'hygiène, à la thérapeutique...

quercetin), several tannins (such as punicalin, punicalagin or tercatin), saponines and phytosterols. Due to this chemical richness, the leaves (and the bark)...

ISBN 978-0-660-19941-2. Abderhalden, Emil (29 July 2013). Gerbstoffe, Flechtenstoffe, Saponine, Bitterstoffe, Terpene, Ätherische Öle, Harze, Kautschuk (in German). Springer-Verlag...

retrieved 2010-03-07. Tschesche, R.; Hagedorn, A. (1935), "Über neutrale Saponine, II. Mitteil.: Abbau eines Genins der neutralen Sapogenine zu einem Gallensäure-Derivat"...