Harnessing Health Benefits from Olive Oil By-Products

The present project focuses on valorization of olive mill wastewater and olive wet pomace or paté, obtained by the extraction system based on multi-phase decanters.

Although olive by-products have only been considered a major environmental issue for many years, in the last decades, numerous studies have deeply described their antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, immunomodulatory, analgesic, antimicrobial, antihypertensive, anticancer, antihyperglycemic activities.

Numerous studies have focused on optimization methods to extract polyphenols from olive oil by-products for pharmaceutical or cosmetic applications, and recent efforts have been made to exploit olive oil by-products such as food or ingredients.