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The market value of crustaceans depreciates during storage due to the appearance of melanosis caused by polyphenol oxidases. Sulfite derivatives are used as melanosis-inhibiting agents, but their unhealthy effects make it preferable to replace them with natural preservatives. In this work, a crude enzymatic extract from whiteleg shrimp (Penaeus vannamei) was characterized and used to test the diphenol oxidase-inhibiting activity of polyphenol extracts of five underutilized halophyte plants, namely crystalline ice plant, seaside arrowgrass, purslane, sea fennel, and seashore aster. The extracts inhibited diphenol oxidase activity more efficiently than sodium sulfite. The purslane extract was rich in isoorientins, isovitexin, and apigenin, and showed the highest inhibiting effect, being this classified as mixed or non-competitive. Hydroxyl groups in the phenyl B ring could be responsible for the inhibitory activity of the extract. The polyphenol extracts tested in this work could be promising melanosis-inhibiting agents of interest for seafood industries. ; This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness project (grant number AGL2014-52825-R) and cofounded with European Union ERDF funds (European Regional Development Fund). Author A. Tzamourani was funded by the Erasmus Program. ; Peer reviewed

Guoyin Zheng,1,* Fengfeng Mo,2,* Chen Ling,3,* Hao Peng,1 Wei Gu,1 Min Li,2 Zhe Chen1 1Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Changhai Hospital, 2Department of Military Hygiene, Second Military Medical University, 3Department of Biology, School of Life Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China *These authors contributed equally to this work Abstract: Purslane is a widespread succulent herb that exhibits various pharmacological effects. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the protective effect of Portulaca oleracea L. (purslane) on streptozotocin-induced diabetes in mice. Oral glucose-tolerance tests were carried out to assess blood glucose levels and body weight and food intake were recorded. The biochemical parameters anti-aspartate aminotransferase, alanine aminotransferase, insulin, triglycerides, total cholesterol, IL-6, IL-1β, and TNFα were also measured. The pathological condition of liver tissues were examined by hematoxylin–eosin staining. Rho, ROCK1, ROCK2, NFκBp65, p-NFκBp65, IκBα, and p-IκBα expression in liver tissue were analyzed by Western blot. Purslane increased body weight and decreased food intake. Purslane also significantly reduced concentrations of glucose, anti-aspartate aminotransferase, alanine ­aminotransferase, triglycerides, total cholesterol, IL-6, IL-1β, and TNFα in serum. Serum insulin was elevated with purslane treatment. In addition, pathologic liver changes in diabetic mice were also alleviated by purslane. Obtained data revealed that purslane restored the levels of Rho–NFκB signaling-related proteins in comparison with those of diabetic mice. Above all, it can be assumed that purslane might play a positive role in regulating streptozotocin-induced liver injury through suppressing the Rho–NFκB pathway. Keywords: Portulaca oleracea L., diabetes, liver injury, Rho–NFκB

The aim of the present study is to estimate the levels of some essential and non-essential metals content of soil and seven leafy vegetable species, in the field 30m away from the Al-Qanat highway in Baghdad using X-ray fluorescence analysis. The results showed that soil and leafy vegetables had higher levels of macro elements, and that Ca in rocket and purslane was the highest. The average content of trace elements in soil and leafy vegetables has been close to the minimum than the range of permissible limits recommended by WHO and FAO/WHO except Fe, Cr and Ni in soil have exceeded the concentration of the threshold limit (13728.8 mg/kg Dw for Fe, 183.361mg/kg Dw for Cr, and 124.01mg/kg Dw for Ni) value as well for leafy vegetables, the concentration of Fe (573.29 mg/kg Dw in spinach and 540.41 mg/kg Dw in rocket) and zinc (183.52 mg/kg Dw in mallow, and 181.19 mg/kg Dw in purslane) exceeded the permissible limits.
The values of As, Cd, Pb and Hg concentrations in soil have been within the range of permissible limits recommended by WHO while in leafy vegetables higher levels of Pb (2.58 mg/kg Dw), and Cd (2.2 mg/kg Dw), were found in the rocket, and fenugreek, respectively. Also, higher levels of Sr were found in the rocket (592.42 mg/kg Dw) and purslane (560.34 mg/kg Dw) as well as Al in spinach (186.55 mg/kg Dw). In addition, P, K, Mg (purslane), Zn (rocket, purslane, mallow), Cd (grapevine, fenugreek), and Sr (rocket, purslane) accumulated the most with the transfer factor (TF) (> 1.0), followed by Ca, Mg, Fe, Co, Cu, Se, Mn, Zn, Ni, As, Cd, Pb, Hg and Sr (0.01–1.0), while Cr, and Al had the lowest accumulation (< 0.01).

Purslane which is the common name for Portulaca oleracea L. is a weed plant distributed all over the world and it has significant medicinal uses due to its present high percentage of phytochemical compounds. However, previous studies by researchers confirmed possession of Purslane leaves extracts anti-oxidant efficacy. Therefore, our study aims to determine the phytochemical composition of the ethanolic leaves extract of purslane and radiation-stimulated DNA damage protecting. Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) analyses in the present research explore active constituents for P. oleracea, which are 17 active compounds most they are terpenoids and alkaloids. The extract showed considerable antioxidant activity and the highest inhibition-percentage (44.45 %) belongs to (20mg/ml) of an extract with an IC50 value of 4.6 mg/ml in H2O2 scavenging test and prevented DNA oxidative damage stimulated by hydrogen peroxide and ultraviolet light (UV/H2O2) at concentrations of (2-20 mg/mL). These findings suggest that the ethanolic leaves extract of P. oleracea, could be used as skin-care products to prevent UV-induced damage to the skin..

Halophytes are salt-tolerant plants that can be used to extract dissolved inorganic nutrients from saline aquaculture effluents under a production framework commonly known as Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA). Halimione portulacoides (L.) Aellen (common name: sea purslane) is an edible saltmarsh halophyte traditionally consumed by humans living near coastal wetlands and is considered a promising extractive species for IMTA. To better understand its potential for IMTA applications, the present study investigates how artificial lighting and plant density affect its productivity and capacity to extract nitrogen and phosphorous in hydroponic conditions that mimic aquaculture effluents. Plant growth was unaffected by the type of artificial lighting employed—white fluorescent lights vs. blue-white LEDs—but LED systems were more energy-efficient, with a 17% reduction in light energy costs. Considering planting density, high-density units of 220 plants m−2 produced more biomass per unit of area (54.0–56.6 g m−2 day−1) than did low-density units (110 plants m−2; 34.4–37.1 g m−2 day−1) and extracted more dissolved inorganic nitrogen and phosphorus. Overall, H. portulacoides can be easily cultivated hydroponically using nutrient-rich saline effluents, where LEDs can be employed as an alternative to fluorescent lighting and high-density planting can promote higher yields and extraction efficiencies ; The authors thank the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) for the financial support to Marco Custódio (PD/BD/127990/2016), Paulo Cartaxana (CEECIND/01434/2018) and CESAM (UIDB/50017/2020+UIDP/50017/2020). This work was also supported by the Integrated Program of SR&TD "Smart Valorization of Endogenous Marine Biological Resources Under a Changing Climate" (reference Centro-01-0145-FEDER-000018), co-funded by Centro 2020 program, Portugal 2020 and European Union, through the European Regional Development Fund, and by the project "AquaMMIn—Development and validation of a modular integrated ...

AbstractThis paper brings to light additional lexical material with regard to several items, primarily cultural terms, discussed already in the relevant literature. The material was recorded during recent field-work in various parts of the Iranian-speaking oikumene, including present-day Iran, western parts of Afghanistan, and Central Anatolia. The list of terms examined in this essay are: "bare-foot and naked", "step-child", "yawning", "snow, sleet, and dew", "threshing-floor", "mortar and pestle", "fork for winnowing grain", "plough-handle", "clothing, underwear, and shirt", and "Rhubarb (Rheam L.) and Purslane (Portulaca L.)".

Part I. Novel Sustainable Green Food Processing Technologies -- Chapter 1. Smart and Sustainable Food Production Technologies -- Chapter 2. Recent Trends in the application of Essential oils for preserving foods -- Chapter 3. A Novel sustainable Approach for Extraction of Pectin from Citrus and Dairy Waste -- Chapter 4. Extraction and Utilization of underutilized plant purslane 'Portulaca Oleracea' in food product formulation -- Part II. Circular Strategies for Recovery & Valorization -- Chapter 5. Effect of Ultrasonication on the Recovery of Essential Bioactive Compounds from Tomato Waste -- Chapter 6. Sustainable valorization of waste from mango processing sector -- Chapter 7. Sustainability in production of enzymes from Fruit & Vegetable waste -- Chapter 8. Utilization of fruit by-products to produce value-added products: Conventional utilization and emerging opportunities -- Chapter 9. Waste Valorization in Food Industries: A Review of Sustainable Approaches -- Part III. Sustainable Techniques for Food Safety & Food Diversity -- Chapter 10. Seaweed- A sustainable food source in the food industry -- Chapter 11. Medicinal Plants: sustainable scope to Nutraceuticals.

The national nature reserve of Saint-Brieuc Bay, located in the north of Brittany, is a site of international importance for the wintering of the Black-bellied Brent goose Branta bernicla bernicla although its preferred food, eelgrass, is completely absent. Local monitoring points out that the green seaweeds Ulva armocicana represents 90% of the food eaten by the Brent geese. These algae are responsible for the spectacular green tides which greatly impact this bay each summer. The 400 odd tons consumed each winter by the Brent geese are insufficient to curb this phenomenon. However, the resorption policy of the nitrogenized surpluses arriving in the bay in order to fight against the aestival green tides could, in the long term, reduce this food resource and force geese to find a substitution food which, locally, could be a grass growing on salt-marshes (Puccinellia maritima) or winter cereals growing in arable lands bordering the bay. To avoid possible crop, the national nature reserve could have to increase the surface of Puccinellia maritima meadows by mowing or by converting to pasture on the climacic areas with Halimione portulacoides as is the practice on the Atlantic coast, in Aiguillon Bay. This will have to be done with caution, the areas with sea-purslanes being important feeding grounds for young fish during the high tides. It is quite singular to see that, in this bay, a wintering area of international interest for a water bird developed thanks to serious environmental perturbation and that this ornithological interest could be disrupted by current curative policies of water quality restoration, should no compensatory measures come to balance for the hoped reduction of the green tide ; La réserve naturelle nationale de la baie de Saint-Brieuc, située dans le nord de la Bretagne, est un site d'hivernage d'importance internationale de la Bernache cravant à ventre sombre Branta bernicla bernicla bien que sa nourriture préférée, les zostères, en soit totalement absente. Les suivis réalisés ont permis de mettre en évidence que les Ulves Ulva armocicana, représentent 90 % de la nourriture ingérée localement par les bernaches. Ces ulves sont responsables des spectaculaires marées vertes qui impactent très fortement la baie chaque été. Les quelque 400 tonnes consommées chaque hiver par les bernaches ne permettent pas d'endiguer ce phénomène. Toutefois, la politique de résorption des excédents azotés arrivant en baie afin de lutter contre la prolifération estivale des ulves pourrait, à terme, réduire cette ressource alimentaire et amener les bernaches à devoir trouver une nourriture de substitution qui, dans la baie, pourrait être une graminée poussant sur les prés-salés (Puccinellia maritima) ou les céréales d'hiver semées dans les champs bordant la baie. Pour éviter d'éventuels dégâts dans les cultures, la réserve pourrait être amenée à agrandir les prairies salées à Puccinellia maritima existantes, soit par la fauche, soit par le pâturage sur les zones climaciques à Obiones Halimione portulacoides comme cela se pratique en baie de l'Aiguillon. Ceci devra se faire avec prudence, les zones à Obiones étant d'importantes zones de nourrissage pour les jeunes poissons fréquentant les prés-salés lors des marées hautes. Il est tout à fait singulier de voir que, dans cette baie, un hivernage d'intérêt international d'une espèce d'oiseau d'eau s'est développé grâce à un grave déséquilibre du milieu et pourrait être remis en cause par les mesures curatives en cours de mise en œuvre si aucune mesure ne vient compenser la diminution espérée des stocks d'ulves.