Reprint
Olive Oil
Processing, Characterization, and Health Benefits
Edited by
April 2021
130 pages
- ISBN978-3-03943-855-6 (Hardback)
- ISBN978-3-03943-856-3 (PDF)
This book is a reprint of the Special Issue Olive Oil: Processing, Characterization, and Health Benefits that was published in
Biology & Life Sciences
Chemistry & Materials Science
Engineering
Public Health & Healthcare
Summary
The Mediterranean diet is well-known worldwide and recognized as a nutrition reference model by the World Health Organization. Virgin olive oil, prepared from healthy and intact fruits of the olive tree only by mechanical means, is a basic ingredient and a real pillar of this diet. Its positive role in health has now been a topic of universal concern. The virtues of natural olive oil, and especially of extra virgin olive oil, are related to the quality of the fruits, the employment of advanced technologies, and the availability of sophisticated analytical techniques that are used to control the origin of the fruits and guarantee the grade of the final product. To enrich recent multidisciplinary scientific information concerning this healthy lipid source, a new special issue of Foods has been published.
Format
- Hardback
License
© 2022 by the authors; CC BY-NC-ND license
Keywords
1H NMR spectroscopy; EVOOs geographical origin; extra virgin olive oil; multivariate statistical analysis; historical climate data; olive oil; biophenols; Mediterranean diet; pharma-nutrition; cardiovascular disease; authentication; bioactive; by-product; glycolipid; lipidomics; mass spectrometry; phospholipid; traceability; extra-virgin olive oil; EVOO; chlorophylls; carotenoids; pigments; colour; quality; spectroscopy; ultraviolet-visible light; light absorption; olive oil; successful aging; dietary fats; authenticity; olive oil; cultivars; quality; triacylglycerols; volatiles; chemometrics; olive oil; extraction process; innovative approaches; ultrasound; technological level of readiness; extra virgin olive oil; varietal authentication; Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy; pigments; polar lipids; ultrasound; bio-phenols; pharmaceutical molecular mechanisms of action; primary public health prevention strategies; healthy aging and longevity