Products from Olive Tree

Dimitrios Boskou

Products from Olive Tree - IntechOpen 2016 - 1 electronic resource (344 p.)

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Olive tree products provide a number of documented presentations of the production and quality of the two most important olive tree products: virgin olive oil and table olives. It is a source that familiarizes readers with recent approaches and innovations that can be introduced in the virgin olive oil extraction and stabilization technology and the preparation of table olives with emphasis on the presence of bioactive constituents. It also describes advances in the methods of checking authenticity and in the evaluation of attributes that may influence consumers' perceptions and preferences. Other topics discussed are squalene, a trove of metabolic actions, pigments, geographical indication, biotechnology in table olive preparation, and recovery of hydroxytyrosol from olive-milling wastes.


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English

61902 9789535127253 9789535127246 9789535141648

10.5772/61902 doi

Life Sciences Horticulture Pomology Agricultural and Biological Sciences