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Since early antiquity, spices and resins from animal and plant sources have been used extensively for perfumery and flavor purposes, and to a lesser extent for their observed or presumed preservative properties. Fragrance and flavor materials vary from highly complex mixtures to single chemicals. Their history began when people discovered that components characteristic of the aroma of natural products could be enriched by simple methods. Recipes for extraction with olive oil and for distillation have survived from pre-Christian times to this day. 

Where storage under ambient or chilled temperatures is intended for the foodstuff, accelerated tests are carried out. For example, ten days at 40 °C covers ambient storage. For a combination of time and temperatures a combination of test conditions is used. In some cases carrying out only the most severe test is allowed. For example two hours at 175 °C to cover oven cooking would also cover ambient storage. To cover all anticipated conditions of use, test conditions of two hours at 175 °C with olive oil, and reflux conditions for four hours are used with aqueous simulants. Some examples of test conditions are given in Table 10.1. 

In a large bowl, combine carrots, sweet potatoes, garlic, rutabaga, and onion. Drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with basil, cumin, salt, cayenne, and nutmeg. Toss to coat vegetables evenly. 

Table 5.15 Experimental diets in nutritional study comparing NuSun with olive oil and die standard American diet...

Chop garlic fine, place in small baking dish with olive oil and bake in oven at lowest setting you have overnight. 

TIP Peel and wash vegetables such as carrots, onions, celery, potatoes, yams, parsnips, and turnips, and cut them into like-size chunks. Toss with olive oil and put them on a baking sheet, in a single layer. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Roast the vegetables on a different rack while your chicken roasts, and you ll have a complete meal when it s done. 

It is quite clear, first of all, that since emulsions present a large interfacial area, any reduction in interfacial tension must reduce the driving force toward coalescence and should promote stability. We have here, then, a simple thermodynamic basis for the role of emulsifying agents. Harkins [17] mentions, as an example, the case of the system paraffin oil-water. With pure liquids, the inter-facial tension was 41 dyn/cm, and this was reduced to 31 dyn/cm on making the aqueous phase 0.00 IM in oleic acid, under which conditions a reasonably stable emulsion could be formed. On neutralization by 0.001 M sodium hydroxide, the interfacial tension fell to 7.2 dyn/cm, and if also made O.OOIM in sodium chloride, it became less than 0.01 dyn/cm. With olive oil in place of the paraffin oil, the final interfacial tension was 0.002 dyn/cm. These last systems emulsified spontaneously—that is, on combining the oil and water phases, no agitation was needed for emulsification to occur. 

When there are many samples and many attributes the comparison of profiles becomes cumbersome, whether graphically or by means of analysis of variance on all the attributes. In that case, PCA in combination with a biplot (see Sections 17.4 and 31.2) can be a most effective tool for the exploration of the data. However, it does not allow for hypothesis testing. Figure 38.8 shows a biplot of the panel-average QDA results of 16 olive oils and 7 appearance attributes. The biplot of the... 

By the nature of the process by which olive oil is extracted from the olive, the oil is susceptible to contamination. The high price associated with olive oil of the highest purity— extra virgin olive oil — also leads to falsification by unscrupulous vendors who blend with less costly oils such as com, peanut, and soybean oil. Various analytical techniques have been devised to authenticate the purity of olive oil by detecting certain oil components. 

It is said that the soldiers of Darius the Great (521-486 bc) emperor of Persia baked a kind of flat bread on their shields and then covered it with cheese and dates when on campaign. Cato the Elder, i.e. Marcus Porcius Cato (234-149 bc), wrote of a flat round of dough dressed with olive oil, herbs and honey baked on stones . Shops were found in the ruins of Pompeii apparently equipped for the manufacture and sale of flat breads, possibly pizzas. 

HPLC analysis of TAGs was applied to olive oils and a limit for LLL was established at 0.5% of the total TAGs and enclosed in the European Commission (EC) Regulation on olive oils, as well as in the related international norms (International Olive Oil Trade Norm [2], Codex Alimentarius Standard [3]). The method performed the separation by RP-HPLC on a C18 Lichrosorb or Lichrosphere column, 25x0.46 cm, 5 J,m of particle size, isocratic elution with acetone/acetonitrile (50/50 v/v) and RI detection. Eigure 19.1 reproduced the HPLC traces annexed to the official method [4] chromatogram A refers to 100% soybean oil, B to a mixture 50/50 soybean and olive, C 100% olive oil. 

Cantarelli [332] and Montedoro and Cantarelli [333] noted the presence of phenolic compounds in olive oils and they established a set of research priorities related to these compounds that are practically still carried out nowadays. Research issues deal with the development of analytical procedures to quantify phenolic compounds in oils, the relationship between these compounds and the characteristics of the olive fruit, as determined by variety, ripeness degree, and other sonrces of variation, the relationship between the profile, concentration, and extraction technology of phenolic compounds, the biological role in the antioxidant activity in vitro and in vivo [334],... 

Carbon in the form of lampblack was often mixed with olive oil or balsam gum (101, 275) and used as ink. It was carried in an inkhom... 

The category correlations can be cancelled only when all the objects of the training set are in the same category, and the method is used as a class modelling technique. However, the bayesian analysis in ARTHUR-BACLASS has b n compared with the usual BA in classification problems about winra and olive oils and about the same classification and prediction abilities were observe for both methods. 

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