Project name | Oil4Health: From Olive To Health
Project code | LISBOA-01-0247-FEDER-038554
Primary objective | OT1 - Reforçar a investigação, o desenvolvimento tecnológico e a inovação
Region of intervention | NUTS II Lisboa
Beneficiary entity | Sovena Portugal – Consumer Goods, S.A.
Approval date | 21-08-2018
Start date | 26-11-2018
Completion date | 25-11-2020
Total eligible cost | 784.984,41 EUR
European Union funding | FEDER – 313.993,76 EUR
SCOPE
Nothing to lose and everything to transform. Breaking new ground, beyond food.
The project aims to utilise the combined by-products of the olive oil production process, namely pomace, vegetable water and olive leaves, from the viewpoint of reusing them through the achievement of advances such as (i) the systematisation of technical and scientific knowledge on the inherent bioactivity of OHTYR-rich extracts at the industrial level; (ii) the generation of knowledge underpinning the evaluation of technologies in the sense of intensifying a sustainable and viable industrial extraction, fractionation and purification process; and (iii) the study of the impact of applying new products in respect of intestinal inflammatory diseases, diabetes and dermatological problems.