Greek grape marc spirits, although being traditional products, have lately attracted increasing attention as a revisited spirit product category. A headspace solid-phase microextraction coupled to the gas chromatography-mass spectrometry method was optimized in order to determine the volatile composition of 39 samples of grape marc spirits from eight major geographical regions of Greece and 4 protected designations of origin (PDOs). This untargeted analysis approach yielded the identification and quantification of 200 volatiles characterizing those products.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this study, an alternative debittering technique for olives, invented and patented by Prof. Vassilis Dourtoglou, was employed. Olive fruits ( cv.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGlycerol is the main organic by-product of the biodiesel industry and it can be a source of carbon for fermentations or a substrate for biotransformations. This work investigates a process that uses pulsed electric field (PEF) to enhance polyol and propanediols extraction from a glycerol/glucose fermentation broth. Three different commercial, non- strains, Prelude (Hansen), Biodiva 291 (Lallemand) and (Lallemand) were studied.
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September 2021
Olive leaves (OLL) are reported as a source of valuable antioxidants and as an agricultural by-product/waste. Thus, a twofold objective with multi-level cost and environmental benefits arises for a "green" standalone extraction technology. This study evaluates the OLL waste valorization through maximizing OLL extracts polyphenol concentration utilizing an emerging "green" non-thermal technology, Pulsed Electric Field (PEF).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe present study aimed to evaluate the pulsed electric field (PEF)-assisted extraction of phytochemicals from L. leaves. The study parameters included a PEF pulse duration of 10 or 100 μs for 30 min, using different "green" extraction solvents: pure ethanol, pure water, and their mixtures at 25, 50, and 75% concentrations.
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