date:Sep 21, 2012
A new Spanish study suggests that fruit and milk-based fruit beverages are suitable vehicles for plant-based sterols, after detecting low sample levels of potentially harmful compounds called POPs.
Introducing their study, published in the August issue of Food Research International, Alemany-Costa et al. noted that foods enriched with plant sterols (PS) (including phytosterols and phytostanols) may help reduce LDL cholesterol levels.
Citing other studies, they said that PS consumption of 2g/da