“…All the major olive oil phenols show good stability in the gastric phase of digestion, although very low levels of stability when exposed to small-intestine conditions (Soler et al, 2010). Therefore, the different phenolic composition of EVA and EVO (Charrouf & Guillaume, 2007;Suárez, Macià, Romero, & Moltiva, 2008) seems to determine the different behavior of the phenolic fraction under conditions of the digestive process (Dinnella et al, 2007). Moreover, around 11% of the total phenols recovered after digestion of EVA were detected in the residual fraction, i.e., they were not available to be absorbed in the small intestine, versus only 2.82% in EVO (P < 0.0001) ( Fig.…”