Olive Leaves possess many active compounds,
mainly phenols and lignans, that protect the plant from environmental stress.
Acacia exhibits various pharmaceutical activities due to many of its chemical compounds,
mainly phenols, alkaloids, flavonoids, and tannins.
Not exact matches
The appearance of these compounds in the wine
mainly comes from the solid parts of the grape (skin and seeds) during winemaking,» explains the University of Seville researcher Julio Nogales, who also says that «we already knew this, but now we can relate the structural composition of the skin and the seeds with the ease with which we can obtain
phenols and understand the differences in
phenol extraction according to whether we use the external or internal surface of the skin.»
The external layer, called the cuticle, does not contain polyphenols and is
mainly made up of hydroxyl fatty acids, while the layer closest to the pulp is where the majority of
phenols are founds in the skin.