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Apple Fruit Cell Culture Extract
Malus Domestica Fruit Cell Culture Extract · Malus Domestica (Apple) Fruit Cell Culture Extract
An extract of apple cells grown in culture, used as a skin conditioner.
What it does
It’s an extract of apple fruit cells grown in a culture rather than picked fruit. The EU lists it as a skin conditioner; that describes what makers intend, not a tested effect on skin.
The evidence, graded
expert consensusUS safety reviewers (2023) assessed 26 apple ingredients, used mostly to condition skin. They judged 21 safe as used in products made not to irritate or cause allergy, apple fruit extract, apple fruit water and apple fruit cell culture extract among them. Phloridzin, an apple compound, boosted pigment-making in lab tests; they expect no effect on skin color at the amounts used. They asked makers to limit pesticides, heavy metals and aflatoxins.Johnson 2023 · International Journal of Toxicology ↗
Graded per the methodology: strong · moderate · emerging · expert consensus. A weak source on a strong claim gets the weaker label.
Also known as
apple stem cell extract
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