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Authors: Farag, Radwan S.¹; Mahmoud, Ebtesam A.¹; Basuny, Amany M.²

Source: International Journal of Food Science & Technology, Volume 42, Number 1, January 2007 , pp. 107-115(9)

Abstract:

Summary

Olive leaves (Kronakii cultivar) were obtained from the annual pruning of olive trees and pressed to obtain a crude juice. Aliquots from the concentrated crude olive leaf juice, representing 400, 800, 1600 and 2400 ppm as polyphenols, were added to sunflower oil. Samples of sunflower oil mixed with olive leaf juice were heated intermittently at 180 ± 5 °C for 5 h day⁻¹ and the heating process was repeated for five consecutive days. A control experiment was performed where butylated hydroxyl toluene (BHT) at 200 ppm was added to sunflower oil prior to intermittent heating in order to compare the antioxidant efficiency between the natural polyphenolics of olive leaf juice and synthetic antioxidant BHT. Some physical and chemical constants for the unheated and heated sunflower oil were determined. The data indicate that the addition of olive leaf juice to sunflower oil heated at 180 °C induced remarkable antioxidant activity and at 800 ppm level was superior to that of BHT in increasing sunflower oil stability.

Keywords: Antioxidants; deep fat frying; polyphenols; sunflower oil

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2621.2006.01374.x

Affiliations: 1: Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt 2: Department of Food Technology, Agriculture Research Centre, Ministry of Agriculture, Giza, Egypt

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Use crude olive leaf juice as a natural antioxidant for the stability of sunflower oil during heating