Olive Oil: Processing, Characterization, and Health Benefits

Olive Oil: Processing, Characterization, and Health Benefits
ISBN-10
3039438557
ISBN-13
9783039438556
Series
Olive Oil
Category
Science
Pages
130
Language
English
Published
2021-04-12
Publisher
MDPI
Authors
Dimitrios Boskou, Maria Lisa Clodoveo

Description

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.

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