Plant-Based Beverages as Good Sources of Free and Glycosidic Plant Sterols.

ABSTRACT: To address the ever-growing group of health-conscious consumers, more and more nutritional and health claims are being used on food products. Nevertheless, only very few food constituents, including plant sterols, have been appointed an approved health claim (European Commission and Food and Drugs Administration). Plant sterols are part of those limited lists of approved compounds for their cholesterol-lowering properties but have been praised for their anti-inflammatory and anti-carcinogenic properties as well. Despite this indisputable reputation, direct quantitative data is still lacking for naturally present (conjugated) plant sterols in beverages. This study aimed to fill this gap by applying a validated extraction and UPLC-MS/MS detection method to a diverse range of everyday plant-b

SUBMITTER: Decloedt AI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5793249 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature