Table 5.

Biological compounds with potential anticancer activity present in the latex from Moraceae family representatives.

Plant species	Compounds present in the latex		Reference
	Low molecular weight molecules	Proteins
Antiaris toxicaria	Cardenolide glycosides		(Dai et al., 2009)
Ficus carrica	6-O-acyl-β-D-glucosyl-B-sitosterols (palmitoyl, linoleoyl, oleyl and stearyl) Amino acids Fatty acids Phytosterols (B-sitosterol, α and β-amyrin, lupeol, betulol and lanosterol)	Cysteine proteinases (ficin)	(Rubnov et al., 2001; Solomon et al., 2006; Hashemi et al., 2011)
Ficus religiosa	Flavonols (quercetin and myricetin) Phytosterols (stigmasterol and β-sitosterol)		(Saida et al., 2021)
Ficus pseudopalma	Flavonoids (quercetin) Terpenoids (lupeol)		(De Las Llagas et al., 2014)