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Olives and olive oil in health and disease prevention
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- Creator
- edited by Victor R. Preedy, Ronald Ross Watson
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- First edition
- Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/Academic Press, 2010
- Physical Details
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- xxxix, 1479 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
- ISBNs
- 1282540971, 0080922201, 9786612540974, 9780123744203, 0123744202
- OCLC
- ocn648711459, ocn441761569, ocn610009055
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- The plant, production, olives and olive oil, and their detailed characterization. The plant and production. Olives and olive oil. The detailed characterization of olives and olive products -- Components of olives and olive plant product and uses. Lipids, phenolics, and other organics and volatiles. Metals, electrolytes, and other components. Non fruit aspects including mill wastewater -- Stability, microbes, contaminants, and adverse components and processes. Bacterial and fungal and other microbial aspects. Pesticides and adulterants. Toxicology and contaminants -- Analytical methods. Natural components. Adverse components -- General nutrition. General aspects and changes in food processing. Cardiac aspects. Vascular aspects including hypertension. Lipid aspects -- Oxidative stress -- Cancer and immunology. Cancer. Immunology and inflammation -- Other effects, uses, and diseases. Cells and cellular effects. Skin and cosmeceuticals. Major organ systems including liver and metabolism -- Tyrosol and hydroxytyrosol -- Oleuropein -- Oleic acid -- Other components found in olive plants and products
Subjects
- Olive oil -- Health aspects.
- Olive oil -- Physiological effect.
- Plant Oils -- chemistry.
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- Plant Oils -- therapeutic use.
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- Dietary Fats, Unsaturated -- therapeutic use.
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- Olea -- chemistry.
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