ABSTRACT
Phenolic compound compositions are very diverse, and sometimes it is important to reduce the concentration of the most abundant. One of the main differences among phenolic compounds is their polarity and, therefore, they have different solubility in organic solvents. Another strategy is the use of resins to retain and selectively elute them. These cleanup methods can be used for analytical purposes, but they also may be scaled up for the production of enriched extracts. They also are very useful to recover bioactive compounds from wastewater of different food processing effluents. Additionally, the equipment used for partition chromatography have been rapidly evolving to facilitate the separation of high amounts of raw extracts and even high viscous food matrices such as honey.
