Rediscovering Olive Mill Wastewater: New Chemical Insights Through Untargeted UHPLC-QTOF-MS Data-Dependent Analysis Approach.

ABSTRACT: With the advent of new analytical technologies and the urgent environmental problem, reopening investigations into polluting waste matrices becomes a priority. Olive mill wastewater is a pollutant and phytotoxic by-product of olive oil production. An untargeted UHPLC-QTOF analysis of three olive mill wastewaters from three different olive cultivars was performed, and modern informatic platforms were involved to characterize the chemical components in-depth. Data elaboration and statistical analysis confirmed the differences between samples and revealed a total of 364 annotated compounds, including iridoids, phenolic compounds, flavonoids, lignans, cinnamic acid derivatives, and pyrrolidine derivatives. Many of these metabolites, including compounds with known antioxidant and bioactive pote

SUBMITTER: Alessandroni L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12692448 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature