.1 Total sterol content is shown in Table 4.
Table 4 Sterol content in olive oil and olive-pomace oil
|
Type of product |
|
Sterol content (mg/kg) |
|
Extra virgin olive oil |
≥ |
1000 |
|
Medium-grade virgin olive oil |
≥ |
|
Lampante virgin olive oil |
≥ |
|
Refined olive oil |
≥ |
|
Blended olive oil |
≥ |
|
Crude olive-pomace oil |
≥ |
2500 |
|
Refined olive-pomace oil |
≥ |
1800 |
|
Blended olive-pomace oil |
≥ |
1600 |
|
Table 5 Percentage of several major sterols in the total volume of sterol (%) |
|
Cholesterol |
≤ |
0.5 |
|
Brassicastero |
≤ |
0.2 (for olive pomace)
0.1 (for other levels) |
|
Campesterol |
≤ |
4.0 |
|
Stigmasterol |
≤ |
Campesterol |
|
δ-7-Stigmastenol |
≤ |
0.5 |
|
The total contents of β-sitosterol + δ-5-avenasterol + δ-5-23-stigmasterol dienol + Clerosterol + sitostanol + δ-5-24-stigmasterol dienol |
≥ |
93.0 |
5.1.4.3 Erythrodiol and Uvaol content is shown in Table 6.
Table 6 Erythrodiol and Uvaol content in olive oil and olive-pomace oil
|
Type of product |
|
Sterol content (mg/kg) |
|
Extra virgin olive oil |
≤ |
4.5 |
|
Refined olive oil |
≤ |
|
Blended olive oil |
≤ |
5.1.5 Wax content is shown in Table 7
Table 7 Wax content in olive oil and olive-pomace oil
|
Type of product |
|
Wax content (mg/kg) |
|
Extra virgin olive oil |
≤ |
250 |
|
Medium-grade virgin olive oil |
≤ |
|
Lampante virgin olive oil |
≤ |
300 |
|
Refined olive oil |
≤ |
350 |
|
Blended olive oil |
≤ |
|
Crude olive-pomace oil |
> |
350 |
|
Refined olive-pomace oil |
> |
|
Blended olive-pomace oil |
> |
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