TY - CHAP AU - Christos Bazakos AU - Stelios Spaniolas AU - Panagiotis Kalaitzis ED - Dimitrios Boskou ED - Maria Lisa Clodoveo Y1 - 2016-10-26 PY - 2016 T1 - DNA-Based Approaches for Traceability and Authentication of Olive Oil N2 - Olive tree products provide a number of documented presentations of the production and quality of the two most important olive tree products: virgin olive oil and table olives. It is a source that familiarizes readers with recent approaches and innovations that can be introduced in the virgin olive oil extraction and stabilization technology and the preparation of table olives with emphasis on the presence of bioactive constituents. It also describes advances in the methods of checking authenticity and in the evaluation of attributes that may influence consumers' perceptions and preferences. Other topics discussed are squalene, a trove of metabolic actions, pigments, geographical indication, biotechnology in table olive preparation, and recovery of hydroxytyrosol from olive-milling wastes. BT - Products from Olive Tree SP - Ch. 7 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/64494 DO - 10.5772/64494 SN - 978-953-51-2725-3 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-05-08 ER -