Phytosterols as functional food components and nutraceuticals /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Marcel Dekker,
2004.
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| Series: | Nutraceutical science and technology.
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Table of Contents:
- Occurence and levels of phytosterols in foods
- Analysis of phytosterols in foods
- Plant sterol analysis in relation to functional foods
- Analysis of phytosterols in biological samples
- Does phytosterol intake affect the development of cancer?
- Role of plant sterols in cholestrol lowering
- Plant sterols in functional foods
- Safety of phytosterols and phytosterol esters as functional food components
- Potential health risks associated with large intakes of plant sterols
- Chemistry, analysis, and occurrence of phytosterol oxides
- Prospects of increasing nutritional phytosterol levels in plants