Phytosterol

ump to: [|navigation], [|search] Phytosterol enriched foods and dietary supplements have been marketed for decades. Despite well documented cholesterin lowering effect no evidence of any beneficial effect on CVD or overall mortality exists and a meta-analysis published in 2012 suggests that there is no effect.
 * Phytosterols**, which encompass plant [|sterols] and [|stanols], are steroid compounds similar to [|cholesterol] which occur in plants and vary only in carbon side chains and/or presence or absence of a double bond. Stanols are [|saturated] sterols, having no double bonds in the sterol ring structure. More than 200 sterols and related compounds have been identified.[|[][|1][|]] Free phytosterols extracted from oils are insoluble in water, relatively insoluble in oil, and soluble in alcohols.



Can cause cancers such as lung, stomach, ovarian, and breast.