The HPLC analyses of fermented OMWW samples were performed by directly injecting the filtered samples (0.45 µm
PTFE filters, Merck, Darmstadt, Germany) into the HPLC chromatographic system, i.e., Waters Alliance 2695 HPLC liquid chromatography equipped with a Waters 996 photodiode array (PDA) detector set at 280 nm and managed through the
Waters Empower software (Waters Corporation, Milford, MA, USA). The column used was a
Luna C18 (250 mm × 4.6 mm i.d., 5 m, 100 Å; Phenomenex, Torrance, CA, USA) maintained in an oven at 40 °C. A flow rate of 1 mL/min was used. Chromatographic separation was performed according to Romeo et al. [11 (
link)]. The internal standard (I.S.), 50 mM pure gallic acid (Fluka, Buchs Switzerland), was used to quantify the phenolic compounds. The identification of phenolic compounds was obtained by comparing the peak retention time with those of pure standards of tyrosol (TYR),
oleuropein (OLE), hydroxytyrosol (HT) chlorogenic acid, vanillic acid, caffeic acid, syringic acid, p-coumaric acid, ferulic acid, verbascoside,
luteolin-7-o-glucoside,
o-coumaric acid,
rutin,
oleuropein,
apigenin-7-o-glucoside,
luteolin-4-glucoside,
quercetin,
luteolin,
apigenin (Extrasynthese, Genay, France). All analyses were performed in triplicate for each sample.
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