Change in some quality parameters and oxidative stability of olive oils with regard to ultrasound pretreatment, depitting and water addition

•In this study we propose an innovative application of ultrasounds in virgin olive oil processing.•Ultrasound treatment was applied to olive in order to reducing the malaxation step.•This study will bring useful data to get optimum parameters of ultrasound application. Ultrasound pretreatment with different times (0, 4, 8, 10 min) on olive paste previous malaxation of olive oil extraction along with depitting and water application procedures were studied. The effects of these procedures on oil yield, quality parameters and oxidative stability have been studied. Therefore, the olive oil yield increase with increasing time of ultrasound treatment. On the other hand, the application of ultrasound did not adversely affect the quality characteristics, as well as the antioxidant activity, when comparing with untreated paste. Furthermore, the oxidative stability data, we can conclude that ultrasound treatment can affect the olive oil oxidative stability. This study could provide useful information for industry to produce olive oil with high yield and quality.