Germplasm collections of tree crop species represent fundamental tools for conservation of diversity and key steps for its characterization and evaluation. For the olive tree, several collections were created all over the world, but only few of them have been fully characterized and molecularly identified. The olive collection of Perugia University (UNIPG), established in the years' 60, represe...

The occurrence of biophenolic components in olives provides functional value to the Mediterranean food culture, owing to recognized antioxidant activities of these substances. The concentration of biophenolic compounds in olives are closely linked to texture and organoleptic characteristics of agrifood products, i.e. table olive and olive oil. The concentrations of di€erent biophenolic compound...

BACKGROUND The effect of dietary pomace olive oil, which has the same concentration of oleic acid but a higher proportion of oleanolic acid (OA) than olive oil, was examined on animal models of hypertension for the first time. METHODS During 12 weeks, Wistar Kyoto (WKY) and spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) were fed with either a control 2% corn oil diet (BD), or high-fat diets containing...

The olive tree (Olea europaea), native to the coastal areas of eastern mediterranean basin and parts of Asia, nowadays is cultivated all around the world. The products of olive trees, including olive leaves, fruit and oil, possess high nutritional and medicinal values. The characteristic bioactivities of olive products include antioxidant, anti-cancer, anti-hypertension and anti-atherosclerosis...

In this study, antifungal property of olive leaf extracts against Candida albicans PTCC-5027 was examined. Fresh olive leaf extracts were prepared using distilled water in a Soxhlet apparatus. The antifungal activity of the extract was analyzed by measuring the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) and minimum fungicidal concentration (MFC), using the microdilution test and disc diffusion assa...

20 patients at several hospitals who underwent surgical operation between August 1998 to August 2000 had ozonized olive oil applied to their intractable fistula or wounds. The ozonized olive oil treatment was fully effective in 19 of the cases. The one exception was for a case of pilonidal sinus. Ozonized olive oil was especially effective in treating intractable abdominal fistula to digestive ...

This study focused on the characterization of olive oil produced in the Kairouan area (center of Tunisia) in order to install Protected Geographical Indication (PGI). Thus, chlorophylls, carotenoids, phenols and tocopherols contents, fatty acid composition, quality parameters and organoleptic profile were determined on 90 samples of extra virgin olive oil extracted from two different varieties ...

Chemesthetic sensations elicited by ibuprofen, extra-virgin olive oil, and capsaicin were compared to quantify perceptual differences between known agonists of TRPA1 and TRPV1. Extra virgin olive oil contains a phenolic compound, oleocanthal, which is thought to share unique chemesthetic qualities with the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug, ibuprofen. Pilot work suggested participants had dif...

BACKGROUND Olive oil is an energy-dense food frequently consumed in south European countries with increasingly high obesity prevalence. Evidence of the impact of olive oil consumption on BMI and the risk of obesity is limited. We analyzed this association taking into consideration the problem of energy underreporting. METHODS Cross-sectional data on 6,352 Spanish adults were analyzed. Dietary...