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Many species are edible.

However, the favored species for human consumption is Garden Orache ( A. hortensis ).

Use of Atriplex as food is known since at least the late Epipaleolithic ( Mesolithic ).

The Ertebølle culture presumably used Common Orache ( A. patula ) as a vegetable ( A. patula is attested as an archaeophyte in northern Europe ).

In the biblical Book of Job, mallûḥa ( מ ַ ל ּ֣ ו ּ ח ַ, probably Mediterranean Saltbush, A. halimus, the major culinary saltbush in the region ) is mentioned as food eaten by social outcasts ().

Grey Saltbush ( A. cinerea ) is used as bushfood in Australia since prehistoric times.