Elenolic acid is a component of
olive oil
Olive oil is a vegetable oil obtained by pressing whole olives (the fruit of ''Olea europaea'', a traditional Tree fruit, tree crop of the Mediterranean Basin) and extracting the oil.
It is commonly used in cooking for frying foods, as a cond ...
and
olive leaf extract. It can be considered as a marker for maturation of olives.
It is a subunit of
oleuropein
Oleuropein is a glycosylation, glycosylated seco-iridoid, a type of polyphenol, phenolic bitter compound found in green olive skin, flesh, seeds, and leaves. The term oleuropein is derived from the botanical name of the olive tree, ''Olea europaea ...
, a bitter chemical compound found in olives and the leaves of the olive tree, alongside closely related compounds such as
10-hydroxyoleuropein,
ligstroside and
10-hydroxyligstroside, are
tyrosol ester
In chemistry, an ester is a compound derived from an acid (either organic or inorganic) in which the hydrogen atom (H) of at least one acidic hydroxyl group () of that acid is replaced by an organyl group (R). These compounds contain a distin ...
s of elenolic acid.
References
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Carboxylic acids
Aldehydes
Dihydropyrans
Methyl esters