Abstract
The aim of the present review was to analyze grayanotoxin and its healthy and poisoning effect to human health according to available resources of literature. Plants contain many compound components which can be categorized as "medical" or "poisonous" depending on their effects to human body. There are also secondary products derived from plants, such as honey, which can contain many chemical compounds with medicinal or poisonous effects depending on their concentration and application. Many plants of the Ericaceae family, Rhododendron, Pieris, Agarista and Kalmia, contain diterpene grayanotoxins. The consumption of grayanotoxin containing leaves, flowers or secondary products as honey may result in intoxication specifically characterized by dizziness, hypotension and atrial-ventricular block.
Highlights
There are a lot of information about the nutritional and medicinal properties of honey
Honey is well known as a product with nutritional and health-promoting properties
It is important to take into account the aspect of health safety of honey in terms of the potential contaminants presence, mainly plant toxins (Bencko et al, 2017; Kromerová and Bencko, 2017-2020)
Summary
There are a lot of information about the nutritional and medicinal properties of honey. Honey is well known as a product with nutritional and health-promoting properties. Honey on the other side can contain compounds which tend to be toxic. It is important to take into account the aspect of health safety of honey in terms of the potential contaminants presence, mainly plant toxins (Bencko et al, 2017; Kromerová and Bencko, 2017-2020). There are several studies about this issue. The aim of the present review was to analyze the selected plant toxins in honey, especially grayanotoxin and their health effects including poisoning
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