Abstract

The World Health Organization defines a medicinal plant as any and all vegetables that present, in one or more organs, substances that can be used for therapeutic purposes or that are precursors of semi-synthetic drugs, while PANC's are vegetables from the past, present and future that are positively impacting academia, family farming, open-air markets, in addition to nutritionally enriching the school meals of several schools. From this perspective, the objective of this literature review was to report the benefits of bioactive, nutritional and medicinal compounds from the clitoris for human consumption. The scientific survey carried out resulted from the composition of 23 files collected in the Scielo, Google Scholar, Science Direct, Semantic Scholar databases with published articles. From reading several scientific researches, the rich potential of the clitoral flower as a natural dye was verified, due to its intense indigo blue pigmentation, nutritional benefits and the results obtained allow an expansion of the study with the determination of new functional properties for potential technological application.