Could squalene be an added value to use olive by-products?

Squalene (SQ) is an intermediate hydrocarbon in the biosynthesis of phytosterols and terpenes in plants. It is widely used for applications such as skin moisturizers, vaccines, or in carriers for active lipophilic molecules. It has commonly been obtained from sharks, but restrictions on their use have created a need to find alternative sources. We present a review of studies concerning SQ in olive groves to characterize its content and to provide new aspects that may increase the circular economy of the olive tree. There is a large variation in SQ content in virgin olive oil due to cultivars and agronomic issues such as region, climate, types of soil, crop practices, and harvest date. Cultivars with the highest SQ content in their virgin olive oil were ‘Nocellara de Belice’, ‘Drobnica’, ‘Souri’, and ‘Oblica’. An interaction between cultivar and aspects such as irrigation practices or agricultural season is frequently observed. Likewise, the production of high SQ content needs precise control of fruit maturation. Leaves represent an interesting source, if its extraction and yield compensate for the expenses of their disposal. Supercritical carbon dioxide extraction from olive oil deodorizer distillates offers an opportunity to obtain high-purity SQ from this derivative. Exploiting SQ obtained from olive groves for the pharmaceutical or cosmetic industries poses new challenges and opportunities to add value and recycle by-products. © 2019 Society of Chemical Industry     

The occurrence and bioactivity of polyphenols in Tunisian olive products and by-products: a review

Polyphenols have become a subject of intense research because of their perceived beneficial effects on health due to their anticarcinogenic, antiatherogenic, anti-inflammatory, and antimicrobial activities. It is well known that olives and their derivatives are rich in phenolic substances with pharmaceutical properties, some of which exert important antioxidant effects. The characterization and quantification of their polyphenol composition is one of the first steps to be taken in any evaluation of the putative contribution of the olive to human health. This review is concerned with polyphenols in Tunisian olive (Olea europaea L.) products (fruit and oil) and some by-products (leaves and olive-mill wastewater) with an emphasis on the analytical methods used, as well as the biological activities described in recent years.     

Optimisation of Olive Paste Expression: A Study of Variables Affecting Expression Yield

The influence of some operating variables on olive paste expression rate and yield has been investigated using a laboratory expression apparatus. Results show that compaction rate and cake thickness have a primary importance in determining the extraction rate. Temperature has a limited effect. A pressure increase beyond 50·7×10⁵ Pa is also of little benefit. Data on product variables show that the rigid solids play an important role and that the natural pit fragments content in olives is well below the optimal value. An extraction yield as high as 95% was obtained by adding pit fragments up to 40% by volume of olive paste. This value is noteworthy because it was obtained during the expression phase carried out at constant flow rate, while the expression phase carried out at constant pressure was not taken into account. Based on these results, an optimisation experimental design will be presented and validated in a following work.     

食用橄榄油贸易促进组织 ——国际橄榄理事会解析

《国际橄榄油和食用橄榄协定》是由联合国主持在橄榄油主要生产国与消费国之间签订的国际商品协定.从1959年到2015年历经五次改版,根据该协议成立的"国际橄榄理事会"(International Olive Council,IOC)总部驻地在橄榄油最大出口国西班牙首都马德里.国际橄榄理事会由成员理事会管理,下设执行秘书处...     

Transfer of phenolic compounds during olive oil extraction in relation to ripening stage of the fruit

The transfer of phenolic compounds of Olea europaea L. cv. Arbequina variety during olive oil extraction in relation to ripening stage was investigated. The parameters of oil extraction by the Abencor system are shown together with mass balances of the products and by products from the olive oil extraction in relation to olive paste. The phenolic compounds in olive paste, pomace, oil and wastewater were identified and measured by HPLC. Throughout the study, the concentrations of simple phenols, secoiridoids and flavonoids were higher in the olive paste and pomace phases than in oil and wastewater phases. High concentrations of 4‐(acetoxyethyl)‐1,2‐dihydroxybenzene (3,4‐DHPEA‐AC) and secoiridoid derivatives such as the dialdehydic form of elenolic acid linked to 3,4‐DHPEA (hydroxytyrosol) or p‐HPEA (tyrosol) (3,4‐DHPEA–EDA, p‐HPEA–EDA, where EDA is elenolic acid dialdehyde) and an isomer of oleuropein aglycone (3,4‐DHPEA–EA, where EA is elenolic acid aldehyde) were found in olive oil, together with lignan compounds. It was observed that 3,4‐DHPEA–EDA was the most abundant polyphenol present in the wastewater phase. This indicates that biotransformation occurred during olive extraction, especially in the crushing and malaxation operations, and reflects the possible chemical changes that lead to the formation of new compounds. Moreover, the distribution of compounds showed their affinities toward different phases. Copyright © 2005 Society of Chemical Industry     

Olive byproducts and their bioactive compounds as a valuable source for food packaging applications

Among the most important agro-industrial activities in the Mediterranean basin, olive oil production has a high impact on the economy of many Mediterranean countries. However, olive oil extraction generates huge quantities of byproducts, including leaves, pomace residues, stones and wastewater, which have severe environmental impacts mainly because of their phytotoxicity and great organic content. Olive oil byproducts are regarded as inexpensive and abundant raw materials rich in bioactive compounds with high and varied health-related activities. Several phenolic compounds and terpenoids were recovered from olive byproducts using different conventional and advanced extraction methods due to their potential to be used in food, packaging, pharmaceutical, and cosmetic industries. Recently, the use of olive byproducts and their functional compounds to enhance the functional properties of packaging systems was investigated as a sustainable strategy for food preservation, fostering the sustainability of the olive-oil chain, and promoting circular economy. In this framework, the main goals of this review are to summarize the main bioactive compounds in olive byproducts, to review the main advancements in their extraction, purification, and characterization, and finally to discuss their applications in food packaging systems as well as safety-related aspects.     

High performance size-exclusion chromatography analysis of polar compounds applied to refined, mild deodorized, extra virgin olive oils and their blends: An approach to their differentiation

An investigation was carried out to evaluate the use of High Performance Size-Exclusion Chromatography (HPSEC) of polar compounds of refined, mild deodorized, extra virgin olive oils as well as of their blends, in attempting to reveal significant differences in the amounts of the substance classes constituting polar compounds among these oils. Two sets of blends were prepared by mixing an extra virgin olive oil with both refined and mild deodorized olive oils in increasing amounts. The obtained data highlighted that the triacylglycerol oligopolymers were absent or present in traces in the extra virgin olive oil, while their mean amount was equal to 0.04 g/100 g and 0.72 g/100 g in mild deodorized and refined olive oils, respectively. Oxidized triacylglycerols and diacylglycerols were more abundant in mild deodorized oil and refined oil than in extra virgin olive oil. The Factorial Discriminant Analysis of the data showed that the HPSEC analysis could reveal the presence of refined/mild deodorized oils in extra virgin olive oils. In particular, the classification functions obtained allowed designation of mixtures containing at least 30 g/100 g of mild deodorized oil and all those containing refined olive oil as deodorized oil, therefore as oils subjected to at least a mild refining treatment.     

浸泡型橄榄酒的研制

以发酵米酒为酒基,广东云浮郁南县优质成熟橄榄为原料,对浸泡型橄榄酒工艺进行研究,通过正交试验及感官品评和理化指标检测,确定其生产工艺为:将橄榄破碎后,添加100mg/L的果胶酶进行酶解浸渍,酶解温度为15℃,时间24h,酶解完成后,添加40度米酒按料液比为2∶1进行浸泡,浸泡温度25℃,浸泡时间32d。最后经陈酿、澄清、过滤、包装后得口感纯正的橄榄酒     

The utilisation solutions of olive mill by-products in the terms of sustainable olive oil production: a review

Despite the high economic and nutritional value as major positive aspects, olive oil production has an unfavourable side, which is the negative environmental impact caused by the generation of significant amounts of liquid and solid wastes. Therefore, the implementation of sustainable technologies to add value to the olive oil production process is a matter of great interest. This study aimed to review novel solutions dealing with the utilisation of olive oil production by-products while taking into account sustainable waste management options. The most promising technologies for the production of high-added value products from olive oil production by-products have been described with a special attention to the sustainable nonthermal technologies for the extraction of bioactive phenolic compounds, and the key findings of such investigations were reviewed. All described technologies are environmentally friendly and show great potential. Nevertheless, further researches are required to optimise and increase their applicability.     

A critical review on the use of artificial neural networks in olive oil production,characterization and authentication

Artificial neural networks (ANN) are computationally based mathematical tools inspired by the fundamental cell of the nervous system, the neuron. ANN constitute a simplified artificial replica of the human brain consisting of parallel processing neural elements similar to neurons in living beings. ANN is able to store large amounts of experimental information to be used for generalization with the aid of an appropriate prediction model. ANN has proved useful for a variety of biological, medical, economic and meteorological purposes, and in agro-food science and technology. The olive oil industry has a substantial weight in Mediterranean's economy. The different steps of the olive oil production process, which include olive tree and fruit care, fruit harvest, mechanical and chemical processing, and oil packaging have been examined in depth with a view to their optimization, and so have the authenticity, sensory properties and other quality-related properties of olive oil. This paper reviews existing literature on the use of bioinformatics predictive methods based on ANN in connection with the production, processing and characterization of olive oil. It examines the state of the art in bioinformatics tools for optimizing or predicting its quality with a view to identifying potential deficiencies or aspects for improvement.     

初榨橄榄油风味化合物研究进展

阐述了初榨橄榄油风味的主要来源途径即脂氧合酶途径,对影响初榨橄榄油风味特征的若干因素如品种和地理环境,油橄榄果实成熟度,加工工艺,储藏条件等因素进行了讨论和分析.介绍了初榨橄榄油中挥发性化合物的分析检测方法,并且展望了橄榄油风味化合物研究的应用和发展前景.     

橄榄制汁技术的研究

本文介绍了橄榄不同品种的加工特性和不同采收期檀香橄榄果实各营养成分的变化;果胶酶处理可提高制汁得率25～30％,且提高过滤速度;以及橄榄汁饮料的加工方法。     

Characterisation of phenolic extracts from olive pulp and olive pomace by electrospray mass spectrometry

Methanol extracts of olive pomace (two‐phase olive oil extraction) and olive pulp were analysed by reverse phase HPLC and the eluted fractions were characterised by electrospray ionisation mass spectrometry. This technique allowed the identification of some common phenolic compounds, namely, verbascoside, rutin, caffeoyl‐quinic acid, luteolin‐4‐glucoside and 11‐methyl‐oleoside. Hydroxytyrosol‐1′‐β‐glucoside, luteolin‐7‐rutinoside and oleoside were also detected. Moreover, this technique enabled the identification, for the first time in Olea europaea tissues, of two oleoside derivatives, 6′‐β‐glucopyranosyl‐oleoside and 6′‐β‐rhamnopyranosyl‐oleoside, and of 10‐hydroxy‐oleuropein. Also, an oleuropein glucoside that had previously been identified in olive leaves was now detected in olive fruit, both in olive pulp and olive pomace. With the exception of oleoside and oleuropein, the majority of phenolic compounds were found to occur in equivalent amounts in olive pulp and olive pomace. Oleoside was the main phenolic compound in olive pulp (31.6 mg g^?1) but was reduced to 3.6 mg g^?1 in olive pomace, and oleuropein (2.7 mg g^?1 in the pulp) almost disappeared (<0.1 mg g^?1 in the pomace). Both these phenolic compounds were degraded during the olive oil extraction process. Copyright © 2004 Society of Chemical Industry     

橄榄油总迁移量测试行业标准中问题探讨

目的 针对橄榄油总迁移量测试参考的行业标准中的几个问题, 讨论并提出相关改进建议, 以提高测试的可操作性和结果的准确性。方法 采用控制变量法, 考察适宜性判定时不同橄榄油质量对试样中橄榄油干扰物定量结果的影响, 考察不同温度和时间对橄榄油中水分干燥程度的影响。结果 以45~55 mg橄榄油做单点标准曲线定量适宜性判定限量附近的试样时, 检测结果准确性欠佳, 由10.3、7.0、2.8 mg橄榄油做单点标准曲线定量试样中橄榄油干扰物的质量基本一致; 行业标准中橄榄油中水分的干燥条件要求高、操作困难, 较难实现。结论 适宜性判定时宜采用小于10 mg的橄榄油做单点标准曲线, 以此来定量试样中橄榄油干扰物的质量, 对于水分敏感性试样尽量避免采用干燥橄榄油的方法, 建议采用调理法确定试样的准确质量, 以提高橄榄油总迁移量测试结果的准确性。     

Olive oil extractability index as a parameter for olive cultivar characterisation

Extractability, when applied to the olive oil extraction process is defined as the percentage of oil extracted from the total oil content of the fruit. In this work, extractability index (EI), a new parameter determined in a laboratory oil mill, has been studied for 24 olive (Olea europaea L) cultivars from the Olive Germplasm Bank Collection of Mengibar (Spain). In order to evaluate the genetic variability of this new parameter, the influence of cultivar and tree on EI variability has been analysed in olive fruits collected at the same ripening index. The results indicate that cultivar is the most important variation source. Thus olive oil extractability depends on extraction process variables and cultivar. Extractability index could be used together with pulp oil content (on a dry matter basis) as a parameter for olive cultivar characterisation and selection for breeding projects. Copyright © 2003 Society of Chemical Industry     

不同品种与加工工艺对初榨橄榄油挥发性风味成分的影响

采用热脱附-气相色谱-质谱联用技术对9个单品种初榨橄榄油挥发性风味成分进行分析。9个单品种初榨橄榄油共鉴定出22种挥发性风味成分,相对含量较高的有(E)-2-己烯醛、正己醛、2-己烯醛、叶醇、1-戊烯-3-酮,其中(Z)-2-庚烯醛仅在鄂植8号和阿斯品种中检出,乙酸己酯只在莱星和城固32号品种中检出,正戊醇仅在鄂植8号品种中检出,皮瓜尔和阿斯品种中未鉴定出(E)-2-己烯-1-醇和2-乙基己醇。莱星、城固32号单品种初榨橄榄油随着油橄榄成熟度的增大,(E)-2-己烯-1-醇、正己醇相对含量明显升高,而1-戊烯-3-醇相对含量显著降低。莱星单品种油橄榄加酶提取的橄榄油特有成分为(E,E)-2,4-庚二烯醛,鄂植8号单品种特有成分有柠檬烯、正戊醇、(Z)-2-庚烯醛、(E)-2-己烯-1-醇、(E,E)-2,4-庚二烯醛、2-乙基己醇。结果说明,9个单品种初榨橄榄油挥发性风味成分在相对含量和成分组成上均存在差别;同一品种不同成熟度的油橄榄获取的初榨橄榄油,香气成分不同,不同品种初榨橄榄油挥发性成分随成熟度的变化规律基本一致,加酶提取工艺较佳,可丰富初榨橄榄油香气。     

Reduction in pesticide residue levels in olives by ozonated and tap water treatments and their transfer into olive oil

The effects of different wash times (2 and 5 min) with tap and ozonated water on the removal of nine pesticides from olives and the transfer ratios of these pesticides during olive oil production were determined. The reliability of the analytical methods was also tested. The applied methods of analysis were found to be suitable based on linearity, trueness, repeatability, selectivity and limit of quantification all the pesticides tested. All tap and ozonated water wash cycles removed a significant quantity of the pesticides from the olives, with a few exceptions. Generally, extending the wash time increased the pesticide reduction with ozonated water, but did not make significant differences with tap water. During olive oil processing, depending on the processing technique and physicochemical properties of the pesticides, eight of nine pesticides were concentrated into olive oil (processing factor > 1) with almost no significant difference between treatments. Imidacloprid did not pass into olive oil. Ozonated water wash for 5 min reduced chlorpyrifos, β-cyfluthrin, α-cypermethrin and imidacloprid contents by 38%, 50%, 55% and 61% respectively in olives.     

凉山州4个引进品种初榨橄榄油的品质分析

对凉山州4个引进品种(佛奥、奥托卡、豆果、城固32)初榨橄榄油的酸值、过氧化值、α-生育酚含量、豆甾醇含量和β-谷甾醇含量以及脂肪酸组成进行测定,并采用主成分分析综合评价了凉山州4个引进品种初榨橄榄油的品质。结果表明:4个品种初榨橄榄油的酸值和过氧化值均较低;城固32的α-生育酚含量和β-谷甾醇含量最高,分别为164.48 mg/kg和1 149.59 mg/kg,除奥托卡的豆甾醇含量较低外,其余3个品种差异较小;4个品种初榨橄榄油的脂肪酸组成差异较小,不饱和脂肪酸含量为77.34%~82.17%,饱和脂肪酸含量为17.09%~18.87%。综合评价表明4个品种初榨橄榄油中奥托卡的品质最好。