Archive for June 13th, 2008

13 Jun

Olive Oil’s Many Properties

By Johann Fleck,
Olive oil is the crowning glory for grilled seafood, a salad, over Feta cheese or other sheep’s milk cheese. It rounds out pasta dishes and vegetables, and is used to sauté and fry. There is hardly a Mediterranean dish that does not include olive oil in the recipe.
As a result of the [...]

13 Jun

Olive oil inspires novel nanotechnology wastewater cleanup material

By Michael Berger,
Olive oil is good for your health. Unfortunately, the production of olive oil is not. During the olive oil production process, olive oil mills produce a liquid waste called olive black water or olive-oil-mill wastewater (OMW).
This waste water has significant polluting properties due to its high levels of chemical oxygen demand (COD), [...]