Oxidation is a process that extensively occurs in food and may be caused by lipid, protein, and enzymatic oxidation. Margarine is a representative example of foodstuff with lipid oxidation because 82% of its content consists of fat (Karleskind, 1992). The most perceptible effect of its oxidation is the development of disagreeable smells that lead to rejection of the manufactured products. To avoid margarine oxidation, producers use synthetic antioxidants like tocopherol (vitamin E). Nevertheless, the contemporary trend is to substitute synthetic antioxidants with natural ones (Costa et al., 2015;Viuda-Martos et al., 2008). Besides circular economy involves reducing waste. In this context, the industry's waste is considered a source of prime matters, such as valuable extracts with attractive properties as antioxidants.The antioxidant properties of plants and fruits have reached a great interest due to their activities and price (Auddy et al., 2003;Borzi et al., 2019;Pezo et al., 2008). Herbal substances such as essential oils (EO) are used against free radicals, which are involved in the deterioration of the organoleptic and hygienic food quality (de Sousa Barros et al., 2015;Hale et al., 2008). Since citrus essential oils are mainly located in the fruit peel, their extraction is economically sustainable, because the fruit peel constitutes a waste for the fruit juice industry (Blanco Tirado et al., 1995). There are many reports about the antioxidant effect of natural extracts on vegetable oil storage (Suja et al., 2004).So far, studies on grapefruit were focused on the chemical characterization of its main components and the in vitro assessment of the antioxidant activity of essential oils extracted from its leaves and peel (Singh et al., 2010;Sun et al., 2014). Herein, the substitution of vitamin E by the grapefruit peel essential oil in the margarine was proposed. The present study aimed to (i) extract by hydro-distillation the essential oil from the peel of Citrus × paradisi from Bejaia in Algeria; (ii) determine the chemical and volatile composition; (iii)