“…The lipophilic fraction of H. portulacoides leaves from estuarine environments of Portugal is mainly composed of long-chain aliphatic acids (e.g., octacosanoic, triacontanoic, oleic, hexadecanoic, and linoleic) and alcohols (e.g., octacosanol, hexacosanol, and triancontanol) (both in the C16-C30 range) while containing smaller amounts of sterols, such as schottenol, sitosterol, and sitostanol. Furthermore, the environmental stresses induce in a plant the synthesis of a wide range of phenolic compounds, such as sulfated flavonoids, particularly derivatives of isorhamnetin-sulfate and carotenoids (such as zeaxanthin, βcarotene, lutein, auroxanthin, violaxanthin, and antheraxanthin) [11,[14][15][16][17][18]. These confer important biological properties, such as antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-trombotic, and anti-cancerogenic activities [4,11,18].…”