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| - A garden herb with smooth, oval to spade shaped leaves that grows on a smooth, fleshy, reddish stem. It has an acidic, salty and slightly aromatic taste and has a fairly high vitamin C content. Purslane is used in salads, soups, sauces and cream cheese and makes a good accompaniment to raw fruits and vegetables. It can also be eaten as a vegetable, somewhat like spinach.
- Although purslane is considered a weed in the United States, it can be eaten as a leaf vegetable, providing sources can be found which have not been poisoned deliberately. It has a slightly sour and salty taste and is eaten throughout much of Europe, Asia and Mexico. The stems, leaves and flower buds are all good to eat. Purslane can be used fresh as a salad, stir-fried, or cooked like spinach, and because of its mucilaginous quality it is also suitable for soups and stews. Australian Aborigines used to use the seeds to make seedcakes.
- Purslane was a female mouse and a former slave in Fort Marshank. She had a husband, named Groot and an infant son, named Fuffle. Even during her captivity Purslane was particularly active and ready to help other slaves as much as possible. She was a great cook and helped prepare meals to allow slaves enough strength to escape. She was also very resourceful and managed to find an axe head and a broken sword blade to help fight the guards.
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| - Purslane was a female mouse and a former slave in Fort Marshank. She had a husband, named Groot and an infant son, named Fuffle. Even during her captivity Purslane was particularly active and ready to help other slaves as much as possible. She was a great cook and helped prepare meals to allow slaves enough strength to escape. She was also very resourceful and managed to find an axe head and a broken sword blade to help fight the guards. Purslane and her family eventually escaped the Fort with other slaves when Brome and Keyla guided them through a tunnel towards freedom. When the freed slaves met the Rambling Rosehip Players, Purslane and her family marvelled at the contents of their larder and their abundance and variety of food. She thanked the Players for their generosity and help by preparing wonderful meal for them, especially trifles, and Ferndew, Geum and Burrwen helped her prepare a great liberation feast to celebrate the first evening of the recently freed slaves. Purslane was one of the strongest advocates for open warfare against Marshank. She knew that as long as Badrang the Tyrant ruled the Fort, he would enslave others. She cared for the welfare of others and not simply her own. Although she was very mild-mannered and gentle, she could be very tough and strong to protect and defend others. In many ways, through her generosity, her fighting spirit and her selflessness, Purslane represented the opposite personality of Geum.
- Although purslane is considered a weed in the United States, it can be eaten as a leaf vegetable, providing sources can be found which have not been poisoned deliberately. It has a slightly sour and salty taste and is eaten throughout much of Europe, Asia and Mexico. The stems, leaves and flower buds are all good to eat. Purslane can be used fresh as a salad, stir-fried, or cooked like spinach, and because of its mucilaginous quality it is also suitable for soups and stews. Australian Aborigines used to use the seeds to make seedcakes. Purslane contains more Omega-3 fatty acids (alpha-linolenic acid in particular) than any other leafy vegetable plant. Simopoulos states that Purslane has .01 mg/g of Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA). This is an extraordinary amount of EPA for land based vegetable sources. EPA is an Omega-3 fatty acid normally found mostly in fish, some algae and flax seeds. It also contains vitamins (mainly vitamin A, vitamin C, and some vitamin B and carotenoids), as well as dietary minerals, such as magnesium, calcium, potassium and iron. Also present are two types of betalain alkaloid pigments, the reddish betacyanins (visible in the coloration of the stems) and the yellow betaxanthins (noticeable in the flowers and in the slight yellowish cast of the leaves). Both of these pigment types are potent antioxidants and have been found to have antimutagenic properties in laboratory studies. 100 grams of fresh purslane leaves (about 1 cup) contain 300 to 400 mg of alpha-linolenic acid. One cup of cooked leaves contains 90 mg of calcium, 561 mg of potassium, and more than 2,000 IUs of vitamin A. One half cup of purslane leaves contains as much as 910 mg of oxalate, a compound implicated in the formation of kidney stones.
- A garden herb with smooth, oval to spade shaped leaves that grows on a smooth, fleshy, reddish stem. It has an acidic, salty and slightly aromatic taste and has a fairly high vitamin C content. Purslane is used in salads, soups, sauces and cream cheese and makes a good accompaniment to raw fruits and vegetables. It can also be eaten as a vegetable, somewhat like spinach.
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