Portulaca oleracea, commonly known as purslane, is an annual succulent plant in the family Portulacaceae. It is high in various vitamins and minerals. Purslane has a wide natural distribution throughout Africa, the Middle East, India, and Australia. It has smooth reddish stems with yellow flowers and leaves clustered at joints and ends. The plant can be eaten fresh as a salad green or cooked. It has a sour and salty taste. Purslane also has potential medicinal properties as certain compounds have shown cytotoxic effects against cancer cells and it contains anti-inflammatory omega-3 fatty acids.

1. Portulaca
oleracea
Laith alasadi

2. Portulaca oleracea
Kingdom: Plantae
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Portulacaceae
Genus: Portulaca
Species: P. oleracea

3. Portulaca oleracea
 Portulaca oleracea (common purslane,
also known as verdolaga, pigweed, little
hogweed, "red root", pursley, and moss
rose) is an annual succulent in the family
Portulacaceae.

4. Nutritional value
 Purslane, raw
 Nutritional value per 100 g (3.5 oz)
 Energy 84 kJ (20 kcal)/
 Carbohydrates 3.39 g
 Fat 0.36 g
 Protein 2.03 g

5. Nutritional value
 Vitamins
 Vitamin A 1320 IU
 Thiamine (B1) (4%)0.047 mg
 Riboflavin (B2) (9%)0.112 mg
 Niacin (B3) (3%)0.48 mg
 Vitamin B6 (6%)0.073 mg
 Folate (B9) (3%)12 μg
 Vitamin C (25%)21 mg
 Vitamin E (81%)12.2

6. Nutritional value
 Trace metals:
 Calcium (7%)65 mg
 Iron (15%)1.99 mg
 Magnesium (19%)68 mg
 Manganese (14%)0.303 mg
 Phosphorus (6%)44 mg
 Potassium (11%)494 mg
 Zinc (2%)0.17 mg

7. Distribution
 It has an extensive natural distribution
throughout the Old World extending from
North Africa through the Middle East and
the India to Malesia and Australia
 The species status in the New World is
uncertain, It is naturalised elsewhere and
in some regions is considered an invasive
weed.

8. Description
 It has smooth, reddish stems and alternate
leaves clustered at stem joints and ends.
 The yellow flowers have five regular parts
and are up to 6 mm wide.
 Depending upon rainfall, the flowers
appear at anytime during
the year.
 which may reach 40 cm in
height.

9. Uses
 it may be eaten as a leaf vegetable.
 It has a slightly sour and salty taste and is
eaten throughout much of Europe
, the middle east, Asia.
 Purslane may be used fresh
as a salad, stir-fried, or
cooked as spinach
 because of its mucilaginous
quality it also is suitable for
soups and stews

10. medicinal effect
 A rare subclass of Homoisoflavonoids,
from the plant, showed in vitro
cytotoxic activities towards four
human cancer cell lines
 its leaves are used to treat insect or
snake bites on the skinboils, sores,
pain from bee stings,
bacillary dysentery, diarrhea,
hemorrhoids, postpartum bleeding,
and intestinal bleeding

11. medicinal effect
 Seed pods (closed and open)
 active constituents include:
 noradrenaline, calcium salts ,
dopamine,
 malic acid, citric acid,
glutamic acid,
asparagic acid,
nicotinic acid, alanine,
 glucose, fructose, and sucrose

12. medicinal effect
 Purslane contains more omega-3 fatty
acids (alpha-linolenic acid in particular)
than any other leafy vegetable plant.
 Also present two types of betalain alkaloid
pigments.
 Both of these pigment types are potent
antioxidants and have been found to
have antimutagenic properties in
laboratory studies.

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