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Olives and olive oil bioactive constituents

By Boskou , Dimitrios

Book information

Publisher
AOCS Press/Academic Press
Year
2015
ISBN
1630670413, 978-1-630670-41-2, 978-1-630670-42-9, 1630670421, 978-1-63067-043-6
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (15129598 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
422\422
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
Plant bioactive compounds. Plant polyphenols. Oliv

Description

The market is flooded with products posing as elixirs, supplements, functional foods, and olive oil alternatives containing phenols obtained from multiple olive sources. This technically-oriented book will be of value to nutritionists and researchers in the biosciences. It unravels the body of science pertaining to olive minor constituents in relation to new chemical knowledge, technological innovations, and novel methods of recovery, parallel to toxicology, pharmacology, efficacy, doses, claims, and regulation. Topics include: the biological importance of bioactive compounds present in olive products; developments and innovations to preserve the level of bioactives in table olives and olive oil; and importance of variety, maturity, processing of olives, storage, debittering of olives and table olives as a valuable source of bioactive compounds.

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