Contributions to the knowledge of the quality of some olive oil assortments sold on Iaşi city market

Abstract

Olive oil is a food rarely consumed by Romanian peoples, even it if hasa varied range of utilisations, and consumed in moderate quantities is beneficial to human organism. The aimof the current paper to establish the main quality characteristics of some olive oil assortmentssold onIaşi City market and their comparison in according with the values of actual standards. Olive oil samples gathered from two different producers (Aand B) were achieved from Iaşi City market.The determined physical-chemical propertieswere: humidity, density, acidity value, saponification value, iodine value,and peroxide value