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Around 4.5 million tons of leaves are generated each year as a by-product of the olive and
olive-oil production. These olive leaves must be removed from the fields and olive-mills.
Usually they are burned, or else used as fuels or for animal feed. However, olive leaf is
extremely rich in bio-resources, being estimated that around 1 million tons of bioactive
compounds, 1 million tons of cellulose and 1.5 million tons of lignin are currently
underexploited [1]. In particular, the extraction and isolation of high-added value
bioactive compounds in olive leaf (e.g. polyphenols, triterpenoids, essential oils, lipids,
lignocellulose) is especially appealing due to their high-market potential in the food, feed,
chemical, nutraceutical, cosmetic and pharmaceutical sectors
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Bioactive compounds Research Subject Categories::TECHNOLOGY::Chemical engineering::Food technology
Citation
Gomes, Catarina; Ayssata, Almeida; Dias, Rolando; Martins, Cláudia Filipa; Costa, Mário Rui (2022). Supercritical CO2 extraction and purification of bioactive compounds in olive leaf with molecularly imprinted polymers. In 2ª Encontro Ibérico de Fluídos Supercríticos: Book of Abstracts. Coimbra
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Universidade de Coimbra