Drug & supplement interaction

Apple + Tubocurarine

Tubocurarine brand name: Tubocurarine.

No Known Interaction
Medically reviewed by · Updated July 2026 · Pair last verified Sep 13, 2026
The bottom line No known interaction

We found no known interaction between Apple and Tubocurarine in our sources. Absence of a documented interaction is not the same as proven safety, and does not guarantee one does not exist. Do not start, stop, or change a medication or supplement based on this page; confirm with your pharmacist or doctor first.

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Apple and Tubocurarine

We checked these two against our interaction database. Here is what we found.

No Known Interaction Found

We did not find a documented interaction between Tubocurarine and Apple in our sources. This does not guarantee that the combination is completely free of risk — there is often limited research on supplements and herbal products, especially around drug interactions.

If you decide to take both, the practical routine is simple: add one new thing at a time and note the date you started it. If the combination is going to disagree with you, it usually shows in the first days to a couple of weeks — and a start date turns “I’ve been feeling off” into something a pharmacist can actually work with. Do not stop a prescribed medicine on your own.

Always talk with your pharmacist or doctor before making changes to your medications or supplements, particularly if you take several medications or have an ongoing health condition.

Apple safety at a glance

Apple overall Generally safe Apples as a food are safe for most people when eaten in normal amounts.
Pregnancy Generally safe Apples eaten as food are considered safe in pregnancy, but concentrated extracts are not well studied.
Breastfeeding Generally safe Apples as a food are considered safe while breastfeeding; supplements are not well studied.

Safety guidance is general; always confirm with your pharmacist or doctor for your situation.

Still wondering about combining Tubocurarine and Apple? Ask Dr. Brian Staiger, PharmD, BCPS directly ›
How we checked

Why No Interaction Is Listed for Tubocurarine

Interactions in our licensed database are recorded against drug classes, not just single drug names. Tubocurarine is filed under a single classification — skeletal muscle relaxants. Apple has documented interactions with 7 drug classes — the most serious being organic anion-transporting polypeptide substrates (oatp) (major), aliskiren (tekturna, rasilez) (moderate) and antidiabetes drugs (moderate) — and none of Tubocurarine’s classifications are among them.

Classification data comes from our licensed Natural Medicines dataset. A medication can belong to classes beyond those recorded there, so this describes how the check was run — it is not a safety guarantee.

Keep it in perspective

Apple Does Interact With Other Medications

Apple has 47 major, 253 moderate known drug interactions in our database — Tubocurarine isn’t one of them. If you take anything else, check it against the full list below.

Major 47 Moderate 253 No known interaction 2,530 (incl. Tubocurarine)
Taking anything else?

Check Another of Your Medications Against Apple

Covers the 2,830 medications we’ve checked against Apple. Pick one to open its full report.

What to actually watch for

What Apple Itself Has Been Linked To

This is not an interaction — nothing below involves Tubocurarine. It is the side-effect record for Apple on its own, from the licensed Natural Medicines monograph. If something new turns up after you add Apple, this list is the first place to look. 2 entries are worth acting on rather than waiting out — marked below.

  • A severe allergic reaction Worth acting on Additional detail

    “Patients allergic to other fruits in the Rosaceae family, including apricot, almond, plum, peach, pear, and strawberry, can also be allergic to apples. Rarely, the allergy has resulted in anaphylaxis.”

    Apple · Natural Medicines adverse-effect record, reported in allergic rhinitis (hay fever).

    2 sources cited
    1. 7129. Rodriguez J, Crespo JF, Lopez-Rubio A, et al. Clinical cross-reactivity among foods of the Rosaceae family. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2000;106:183-189. PubMed
    2. 94425. Tsiougkos N, Vovolis V. Repeated anaphylactic episodes to orange and apple. Eur Ann Allergy Clin Immunol. 2013 May;45(3):113-5.
  • An allergic reaction Worth acting on Additional detail

    Recorded for Apple in the same Natural Medicines adverse-effect record shown under A severe allergic reaction above.

  • Bloating or gas Additional detail

    “Orally, apple products, including whole apples, apple puree, and apple juice, may cause bloating and flatulence in some people.”

    Apple · Natural Medicines adverse-effect record, reported in flatulence.

    1 source cited
    1. 104184. Krishnasamy S, Lomer MCE, Marciani L, et al. Processing apples to puree or juice speeds gastric emptying and reduces postprandial intestinal volumes and satiety in healthy adults. J Nutr 2020;150(11):2890-9. PubMed

Everything above comes from the Natural Medicines adverse-effect record for Apple — expand a row for the licensed statement it rests on. We haven’t matched Tubocurarine to its FDA label in our system yet, so we can’t compare its own side-effect list here — the leaflet that comes with your prescription is the authoritative list for Tubocurarine.

From our Q&A

Questions About Apple or Tubocurarine

These are real questions from readers, answered by the pharmacists at HelloPharmacist — written by a person, not generated from a database. Each one covers Apple or Tubocurarine, not necessarily both, but if one is close to what you were about to ask it will usually go further than a database entry can:

Not quite your question? Ask our pharmacists directly — it is free, there is no account required, and answers usually come back within 24 hours.

Everything else you take

See Every Supplement That Interacts With Tubocurarine

This page covers Apple only. If you take other supplements — a multivitamin, a sleep aid, something for joints — the Tubocurarine page lists 3 supplements it has a documented interaction with, worst first, each one explained.

The most serious there right now: Procaine (major), Lithium (moderate) and Magnesium (moderate).

By severity: 1 major · 2 moderate.

From our pharmacist’s overview on the Tubocurarine page

“Tubocurarine is not a pill you pick up at the pharmacy; it is a paralyzing agent given during surgery so the anesthesia team can relax your muscles, and that setting is exactly why this short list deserves genuine care. All three flagged ingredients push in the same direction, deepening or stretching out the paralysis the drug causes.”

Reviewed by 2 · Jul 18, 2026

Open the Tubocurarine interaction page

One more smart check

Taking Apple as Part of a Dietary Supplement Product? Check It for Interactions

We hold 2,841 real supplement products containing Apple, each one broken down to its full ingredient list — and combination products often carry several ingredients besides Apple. Even though Apple itself has no known interaction with Tubocurarine, another ingredient on your label might. Find your product and we’ll check every ingredient on its label:

How much people look this up

Where Apple and Tubocurarine Sit Against Everything Else

Out of every supplement and medication people look up on HelloPharmacist, here is where these two land this week — and which way each has been moving.

Supplement Apple
Top 10%

#105 of 1,452 supplements looked up here in the last 7 days

29 days ago today
Medication Tubocurarine
Top 25%

#459 of 2,830 medications looked up here in the last 7 days

29 days ago today

Position among everything looked up on this site, not a measure of how commonly either one is used or how important it is. A supplement can climb this list because of a news story. It counts every request to the page, automated ones included, and nothing here identifies anyone.

Where does our data come from?
  • Source: the Natural Medicines (TRC Healthcare) clinical database — the evidence-graded professional reference for herb & supplement interactions.
  • Citation library: 103,510 references behind our interaction content, 65,311 of them resolved to verified PubMed/DOI sources. See every Apple reference on this page ↓
  • Freshness: we automatically re-check this combination every week — this pair was last verified September 13, 2026. The Apple and Tubocurarine records this page draws on were last updated July 10, 2026.
  • What “no known interaction” means: no documented interaction in the sources above — not a guarantee of safety. Supplements are studied far less than prescription drugs, so we say exactly what the evidence supports, and nothing more.
Data structure & sourcing designed and verified by .
Supplement

About Apple

What is Apple?

Apple
  • General nutrition and fiber intake
  • Heart and cholesterol health
  • Blood sugar and weight management
  • Digestive regularity
  • Antioxidant support

Apples are a nutritious whole food that provides fiber, vitamins, and antioxidant plant compounds, and eating them regularly fits well into a healthy diet. While research suggests apples may support heart and digestive health, most claims about concentrated apple supplements or extracts are not strongly proven, so enjoy apples as food and talk with your pharmacist before using high-dose products.

Malus domestica · Rosaceae · Fruit (with peel), and sometimes the peel, pectin (fiber), juice, and cider vinegar · Fresh fruit, juice, dried fruit, applesauce, apple cider vinegar, pectin supplements, polyphenol extracts

An interaction check asks whether these two react with each other — it does not ask whether Apple is a good idea for someone in your situation. Here is what our Apple record says about it on its own.

Apple: dosing

There is no official medicinal dose for apples because they are a food rather than a drug. As part of a healthy diet, eating one or more whole apples per day is a reasonable goal for most people.For apple supplements such as pectin, polyphenol extracts, or apple cider vinegar products, there is no established standardized dose.

From our Apple monograph — the full record covers uses, side effects and every documented interaction.

Read the full Apple monograph & all interactions
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Other Drugs & Apple

Browse every other medication we’ve checked against Apple — both the ones with a known interaction and the ones without. Select any drug for the full detail.

47Major
253Moderate
0Minor
2,529No known interaction
47 Major 253 Moderate 2,529 No interaction
Major

47 interactions

Moderate

253 interactions

Showing 60 of 253 moderate interactions — see all 253 on the Apple page.

No interaction 2,529 drugs checked — show the list

We also checked Apple against these medications and found no known interaction in our sources. Open any page to confirm.

Showing the 60 most looked-up of 2,529 medications checked with no known interaction — see the full Apple list.

See the full Apple interactions page
See every supplement checked against Tubocurarine, ranked by severity
Evidence & sources

Apple References

The 16 references that drive our Apple monograph and interaction data, from the evidence-graded Natural Medicines (TRC Healthcare) database. Citations with a link open the study on PubMed or the publisher’s site.

  1. The Review of Natural Products by Facts and Comparisons. St. Louis, MO: Wolters Kluwer Co., 1999.
  2. Bailey DG, Dresser GK, Munoz C, et al. Reduction of fexofenadine bioavailability by fruit juices. Clin Pharmacol Ther 2001;69:P21.
  3. Rodriguez J, Crespo JF, Lopez-Rubio A, et al. Clinical cross-reactivity among foods of the Rosaceae family. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2000;106:183-189. PubMed
  4. Greenblatt DJ. Analysis of drug interactions involving fruit beverages and organic anion-transporting polypeptides. J Clin Pharmacol 2009;49:1403-7. PubMed
  5. Bailey DG. Fruit juice inhibition of uptake transport: a new type of food-drug interaction. Br J Clin Pharmacol 2010;70:645-55. PubMed
  6. Kamath AV, Yao M, Zhang Y, Chong S. Effect of fruit juices on the oral bioavailability of fexofenadine in rats. J Pharm Sci 2005;94:233-9. PubMed
  7. Tapaninen T, Neuvonen PJ, Niemi M. Orange and apple juice greatly reduce the plasma concentrations of the OATP2B1 substrate aliskiren. Br J Clin Pharmacol 2011;71:718-26. PubMed
  8. Jeon H, Jang IJ, Lee S, et al. Apple juice greatly reduces systemic exposure to atenolol. Br J Clin Pharmacol 2012 May 11. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2125.2012.04324.x. [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed
  9. Visvanathan, R., Chen, R., Horowitz, M., and Chapman, I. Blood pressure responses in healthy older people to 50 g carbohydrate drinks with differing glycaemic effects. Br J Nutr 2004;92(2):335-340. PubMed
  10. Asp, N. G., Agardh, C. D., Ahren, B., Dencker, I., Johansson, C. G., Lundquist, I., Nyman, M., Sartor, G., and Schersten, B. Dietary fibre in type II diabetes. Acta Med Scand Suppl 1981;656:47-50. PubMed
  11. Akamine Y, Miura M, Komori H, et al. Effects of one-time apple juice ingestion on the pharmacokinetics of fexofenadine enantiomers. Eur J Clin Pharmacol. 2014 Sep;70(9):1087-95. PubMed
  12. Luo J, Imai H, Ohyama T, et al. The Pharmacokinetic Exposure to Fexofenadine is Volume-Dependently Reduced in Healthy Subjects Following Oral Administration With Apple Juice. Clin Transl Sci. 2016 Aug;9(4):201-6. PubMed
  13. Tsiougkos N, Vovolis V. Repeated anaphylactic episodes to orange and apple. Eur Ann Allergy Clin Immunol. 2013 May;45(3):113-5.
  14. Rubido S, García-Caballero L, Abeleira MT, Limeres J, García M, Diz P. Effect of chewing an apple on dental plaque removal and on salivary bacterial viability. PLoS One. 2018;13(7):e0199812. PubMed
  15. Krishnasamy S, Lomer MCE, Marciani L, et al. Processing apples to puree or juice speeds gastric emptying and reduces postprandial intestinal volumes and satiety in healthy adults. J Nutr 2020;150(11):2890-9. PubMed

Medication overviews come from MedlinePlus (NIH); supplement label data from the NIH Dietary Supplement Label Database. Content is written and reviewed by licensed HelloPharmacist pharmacists — see our data sources and editorial standards.

Pharmacist Counseling Corner

Taking Apple and Tubocurarine Together: Common Questions

Is it safe to take Apple with Tubocurarine?
We do not list a known interaction between Apple and Tubocurarine. That does not guarantee the combination is risk-free, so confirm with your pharmacist or doctor — especially if you take other medications or have a health condition.
How was the Apple and Tubocurarine combination checked?
Interactions in our licensed database are recorded against drug classes. Tubocurarine is filed under 1 classification, and Apple has documented interactions with 7 drug classes — none of Tubocurarine's classifications are among them. A medication can belong to classes beyond those recorded in our dataset, so this describes how the check was run rather than guaranteeing safety.
Does Apple interact with any other medications?
Yes. Apple has 300 documented drug interactions in our database — Tubocurarine is simply not one of them. If you take anything else, it is worth checking each one; they are all listed on this page.
Does Tubocurarine interact with any supplements?
Yes. Tubocurarine has documented interactions with 3 supplements in our database — Apple is not one of them. The Tubocurarine interaction page linked on this page lists every one, ranked by severity.

Written and reviewed by the HelloPharmacist editorial staff. Our editorial policy

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