Plant sterols and stanols as cholesterol-lowering ingredients in functional foods

Recent Patents on Food, Nutrition and Agriculture

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-14

  Kamal Eldin, Afaf ^a   Moazzami, Ali ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cholesterol lowering; Functional foods; Health promoting effects; Plant stanols; Plant sterols

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; HYPOCHOLESTEROLEMIC AGENT; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; PHYTOSTEROL; SITOSTEROL DERIVATIVE; STANOL ESTER; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG EFFECT; FUNCTIONAL FOOD; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICELLE; PATENT; REVIEW;

ANTICHOLESTEREMIC AGENTS; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL, LDL; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FUNCTIONAL FOOD; HUMANS; MICELLES; PATENTS AS TOPIC; PHYTOSTEROLS; SITOSTEROLS; TRIGLYCERIDES;

EID: 78049423336     PISSN: 22127984     EISSN: 18761429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/2212798410901010001     Document Type: Review

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