{"id":9777,"date":"2025-08-23T16:21:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T16:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/?p=9777"},"modified":"2025-08-23T16:21:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T16:21:25","slug":"the-nutritional-value-of-silybum-marianum-and-carduus-pycnocephalus-has-spread-widely-in-damascus-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/?p=9777","title":{"rendered":"The nutritional value of Silybum marianum and Carduus pycnocephalus has spread widely in Damascus city"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bassam Al-Oklah * (1)<\/sup><\/strong>, <\/strong>Nawras Al-abras(1)<\/sup>, Yahia Kamari(2)<\/sup>, Nour haj masoud(1)<\/sup> \u00a0and Taher swaf (1)<\/sup><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

(1). National Commission for Biotechnology, Damascus, Syria.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

(2). General Commission\u00a0for\u00a0Scientific Agricultural Research, Aleppo, Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n

(*Corresponding author: Dr. Bassam Al-Oklah, E-Mail: bassam780alk@gmail.com<\/a>, phone: 0938994115).<\/span><\/p>\n

Received:18\/1\/2024\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Accepted:18\/4\/2024<\/span><\/p>\n

Abstract:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The current research was carried out the National Commission for Biotechnology-Department of Food and Industrial Biotechnology in Damascus in 2023, and aimed to investigate chemical composition and nutritional value of two plants namely Silybum marianum<\/em> and Carduus pycnocephalus<\/em> in terms of moisture, ash, proteins, fat, carbohydrates, fiber, pH value and total energy, in addition of metal contents, such as, calcium, sodium, potassium, magnesium, manganese, iron, copper and zinc; and some antioxidant materials (vitamin C, phenols and flavonoids). The results revealed that Silybum marianum<\/em> and Carduus pycnocephalus<\/em>. contains high contents of moisture (90.88-95.21% and between 89.34-92.98%, in the growing apices and leaf blades of S. mariamum <\/em>and C. pycnocephalus<\/em>, respectively), and also high contents of metals, especially calcium (700-1000 and 2800-4200 mg\/100 g dry weight in growing apices and leaf blades of S. mariamum <\/em>and C. pycnocephalus<\/em>, respectively) and potassium (5000-7000 and 4700-5000\u00a0 mg\/100 g dry weight in growing apices and leaf blades of S. mariamum <\/em>and C. pycnocephalus<\/em>, respectively) and sodium (780-1400 and 450-360 mg\/100 g dry weight in growing apices and leaf blades of S. mariamum <\/em>and C. pycnocephalus<\/em>, respectively), in addition of other metals, such as iron, manganese, copper and zinc. Moreover, the two plants mentioned above contained high contents of antioxidants, namely vitamin C (60-82 and 60-70 mg\/100 g dry weight in growing apices and leaf blades of S. mariamum <\/em>and C. pycnocephalus<\/em>, respectively) and phenols (2600-2900 and 2200-2400 mg\/100 g dry weight in growing apices and leaf blades of S. mariamum <\/em>and C. pycnocephalus<\/em> respectively) and flavonoids (220-250 and 1100-1150 mg\/100 g dry weight in growing apices and leaf blades of S. mariamum <\/em>and C. pycnocephalus<\/em>, respectively).<\/span><\/p>\n

Keywords<\/strong>: Silybum marianum<\/em>, Carduus pycnocephalus<\/em>, Chemical composition, Metals content, Antioxidants.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Full paper in Arabic: PDF<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bassam Al-Oklah * (1), Nawras Al-abras(1), Yahia Kamari(2), Nour haj masoud(1) \u00a0and Taher swaf (1) (1). National Commission for Biotechnology, Damascus, Syria.\u00a0 (2). General Commission\u00a0for\u00a0Scientific Agricultural Research, Aleppo, Syria. (*Corresponding author: Dr. Bassam Al-Oklah, E-Mail: bassam780alk@gmail.com, phone: 0938994115). Received:18\/1\/2024\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sjar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9777"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10069,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9777\/revisions\/10069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agri-research-journal.net\/SjarEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}