An Overview of Novel Techniques for Olive Oil Authentication

Price of extra virgin olive oil is going to increase quickly, because of health benefits and sensory properties in the level of global market. For this reason, there is a lots of fakery in this process. Considering the importance of olive oil as one of the most important vegetable oils that gets from olive and has important specifications like organoleptic features combined nutrition and oxidative stability, cheat indices play a key role in determining its quality and purity. There are also new and different methods for detecting adulteration of olive oil, which is generally obtained by mixing it with cheaper oils such as sunflower, rapeseed and so on. In this regard, the use of techniques such as capacitive sensor, visual machine, integration of dielectric systems and image processing, chromatography, ultrasonic, electronic nasal and electronic language have been invented and become commercial in the last decade.

Keywords:

Olive oil , Adulteration , Quality