“…It is commonly known as sapucainha and has several other local popular names such as canudeiro, babado fruit, comona fruit, cotia fruit, leprosy fruit, monkey fruit, mata-piolho, papo de anjo, pau de anjo, pau de cachimbo, pau de cotia, pau de lepra, and ruchuchu (1). The oil extracted from the seeds, whose major fatty acids are hydnocarpic, chaulmoogric and gorlic acids (2,3), has parasiticidal and anti-leprotic properties ( Figure 1) (1,2,4,5). This class of cyclopentenyl fatty acids seems to be restricted to the seed oils of two tribes of the Flacourtiaceae family, Oncobeae and Pangieae (3).…”