| Title: | "Nutritional Composition, Bioactive Compounds, and Volatiles Profile Characterization of Two Edible Undervalued Plants: Portulaca oleracea L. and Porophyllum ruderale (Jacq.) Cass" |
| Author(s): | Fukalova Fukalova T; Garcia-Martinez MD; Raigon MD; |
| Address: | "Laboratorio de Fitoquimica y Productos Biologicos, Facultad de Ciencias Quimicas, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito 170521, Ecuador. Instituto de Conservacion y Mejora de la Agrobiodiversidad Valenciana, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, 46022 Valencia, Spain" |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 2223-7747 (Print) 2223-7747 (Electronic) 2223-7747 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Wild edible plants are an important source of healthy food and have played an important role in traditional Mediterranean diets. In this paper, quality characteristics were typified in Portulaca oleracea L. and Porophyllum ruderale (Jacq.) Cass, undervalued plants inherent to the spring-summer season in the Valencian coastal region. Nutritional composition and bioactive compounds were analyzed and compared between plants in wild and organic cultivation conditions. Proximate analysis was carried out according to Association of Official Analytical Chemists methods. Total antioxidants were measured as 2.2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl hydrate and total polyphenols content via the Folin-Ciocalteu procedure. The HS-SPME technique was used to characterize the volatiles profile, and the polyphenol profile was evaluated by HPLC. The most important microelement was iron. Total antioxidants ranged from 4392.16 to 7315.00 mumol Trolox.equivalents 100 g(-1) fw, and total phenolic content ranged from 99.09 to 391.18 mg gallic acid equivalents.100 g(-1) fw. Results show that the content of antioxidants and phenols was higher in wild species than in cultivated ones. The volatiles profile revealed that P. ruderale was rich in monoterpenoids (48.65-55.82%), and fatty alcohols were characteristic in P. oleracea species (16.21-54.18%). The results suggest that both plants could be healthy foods and could have new sustainable agro-ecological potential for the local commercial sector" |
| Keywords: | bioactive compounds healthy food nutritional composition quality characteristics undervalued plants volatiles profile; |
| Notes: | "PubMed-not-MEDLINEFukalova Fukalova, Tamara Garcia-Martinez, Maria Dolores Raigon, Maria Dolores eng Switzerland 2022/02/16 Plants (Basel). 2022 Jan 29; 11(3):377. doi: 10.3390/plants11030377" |
