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Indena's olive fruit extract Opextan® has been granted GRAS status for use as a food ingredient in a…
Indena's olive fruit extract Opextan® has been granted GRAS status for use as a food ingredient in a variety of food categories resulting in an estimated dietary intake of up to 1,062 mg per person per day.

Opextan is ideal for use in bakery products, beverages, chewing gums, dietary product analogs, frozen dairy desserts and mixes, milk products, processed fruits and fruit juices and processed vegetables and vegetable fruits.

It is a non-caloric, standardized olive extract from the olive pulp of an Italian variety and characterized by unique olive polyphenols, particularly verbascoside, which has been shown to be the most potent antioxidant from the olive tree.

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