Recovery of Dietary Fibres from Olive Mill Wastewater (original) (raw)

Abstract

As it is well known, dietary fibres play a significant role in many physiological processes and in the prevention of several diseases. The importance of fibres has led to the development of a large and potential market for fibre-rich food products and gelling agents. Nowadays, there is a trend to find new sources of dietary fibres and the possibility of using undervalued agro-industrial wastes as raw materials is an important economical aspect. Olives are among the fruits with an appreciable amount of fibres and promising functional properties like water holding capacity and cation exchange capacity. Olive mill wastewater is the byproduct of the olive oil production process, which is usually discharged into land and rivers causing severe environmental problems. A research is carried out by Technical University of Crete, Dept. of Environmental Engineering in collaboration with Lund University, Dept. of Food Technology, Engineering and Nutrition, aiming the recovery of valuable ingred...

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