Purslane Weed (Portulaca oleracea): A Prospective Plant Source of Nutrition, Omega-3 Fatty Acid, and Antioxidant Attributes

Table 4

Fatty acid profiles in total lipid extracts from leaves of purslane and spinach.

Fatty acid	Chamber grown purslane		Wild purslane		Spinach
	Dry wt%	mg/g fresh wt	Dry wt%	mg/g fresh wt	Dry wt%	mg/g fresh wt
18.0	1.12	0.064	0.95	0.048	0.78	0.007
18.1	4.99	0.016	2.13	0.10	2.04	0.018
18.2	16.99	0.968	13.45	0.70	11.70	0.10
18.3	59.87	3.41	63.78	3.22	53.85	0.48

Source: Simopoulos et al., 1992 [21].