Chemical Composition and Yield of Six Genotypes of Common Purslane (Portulaca oleracea L.): An Alternative Source of Omega-3 Fatty Acids

Plant Foods for Human Nutrition

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 420-426

  Petropoulos, Spyridon Α ^a   Karkanis, Anestis ^a   Fernandes, Ângela ^b   Barros, Lillian ^b   Ferreira, Isabel C F R ^b   Ntatsi, Georgia ^c   Petrotos, Konstantinos ^d   Lykas, Christos ^a   Khah, Ebrahim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE BRAGANÇA   (Portugal)

^c AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LARISSA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Antioxidant activity; Bioactive compounds; Edible weed; Oxalic acid; Sugar content

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; OMEGA 6 FATTY ACID; OXALIC ACID;

CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; PLANT LEAF; PLANT STEM; PORTULACA;

ANTIOXIDANTS; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-3; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-6; GENOTYPE; NUTRITIVE VALUE; OXALIC ACID; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT STEMS; PORTULACA;

EID: 84948576276     PISSN: 09219668     EISSN: 15739104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11130-015-0511-8     Document Type: Article

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