Phytosterols

Plants’ answer to cholesterol — structural membrane lipids that lower ours at the dinner table.

Core Principles & Analysis

• Sitosterol and friends stiffen plant cell membranes exactly as cholesterol does animal ones.
• About two grams daily lowers LDL cholesterol roughly ten percent by crowding out absorption.
• Fortified spreads carrying them were among the first approved cholesterol-lowering functional foods.

Specifications & Metrics

• CHEMICAL CLASS: Steroid alcohols