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Phytosterol, the Glossary

Phytosterols are phytosteroids, similar to cholesterol, that serve as structural components of biological membranes of plants.^[1]

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Hypolipidemic agents
Phytochemicals
Phytosterols

Adverse effect

An adverse effect is an undesired harmful effect resulting from a medication or other intervention, such as surgery.

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Avenasterol

Avenasterol, or Δ-7-Avenasterol is a natural, stigmastane-type sterol.

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Beta-Sitosterol

β-sitosterol (beta-sitosterol) is one of several phytosterols (plant sterols) with chemical structures similar to that of cholesterol. Phytosterol and Beta-Sitosterol are phytosterols.

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Blood lipids

Blood lipids (or blood fats) are lipids in the blood, either free or bound to other molecules.

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Brassicasterol (24-methyl cholest-5,22-dien-3β-ol) is a 28-carbon sterol synthesised by several unicellular algae (phytoplankton) and some terrestrial plants, like rape. Phytosterol and Brassicasterol are phytosterols.

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Campestanol

Campestanol is a natural phytosterol. Phytosterol and Campestanol are phytosterols.

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Campesterol

Campesterol is a phytosterol whose chemical structure is similar to that of cholesterol, and is one of the ingredients for E number E499. Phytosterol and Campesterol are phytosterols.

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Cardiovascular disease

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is any disease involving the heart or blood vessels.

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Cholesterol

Cholesterol is the principal sterol of all higher animals, distributed in body tissues, especially the brain and spinal cord, and in animal fats and oils.

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Coconut oil

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Corn oil

Corn oil (North American) or maize oil (British) is oil extracted from the germ of corn (maize).

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Coronary artery disease

Coronary artery disease (CAD), also called coronary heart disease (CHD), ischemic heart disease (IHD), myocardial ischemia, or simply heart disease, involves the reduction of blood flow to the cardiac muscle due to build-up of atherosclerotic plaque in the arteries of the heart.

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Cottonseed oil

Cottonseed oil is cooking oil from the seeds of cotton plants of various species, mainly Gossypium hirsutum and Gossypium herbaceum, that are grown for cotton fiber, animal feed, and oil.

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Cycloartenol

Cycloartenol is an important triterpenoid often found in plants.

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Dietary supplement

A dietary supplement is a manufactured product intended to supplement a person's diet by taking a pill, capsule, tablet, powder, or liquid.

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Digestive enzyme

Digestive enzymes take part in the chemical process of digestion, which follows the mechanical process of digestion.

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Double bond

In chemistry, a double bond is a covalent bond between two atoms involving four bonding electrons as opposed to two in a single bond.

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Enzyme

Enzymes are proteins that act as biological catalysts by accelerating chemical reactions.

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Ergosterol

Ergosterol (ergosta-5,7,22-trien-3β-ol) is a mycosterol found in cell membranes of fungi and protozoa, serving many of the same functions that cholesterol serves in animal cells.

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Eukaryote

The eukaryotes constitute the domain of Eukarya or Eukaryota, organisms whose cells have a membrane-bound nucleus.

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Fatty acid ester

Fatty acid esters (FAEs) are a type of ester that result from the combination of a fatty acid with an alcohol.

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Food and Chemical Toxicology

Food and Chemical Toxicology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering aspects of food safety, chemical safety, and other aspects of consumer product safety.

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Food and Drug Administration

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA or US FDA) is a federal agency of the Department of Health and Human Services.

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Functional food

A functional food is a food claimed to have an additional (often one related to health promotion or disease prevention) by adding new ingredients or more of existing ingredients.

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Fungus

A fungus (fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms.

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Generally recognized as safe

Generally recognized as safe (GRAS) is a United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) designation that a chemical or substance added to food is considered safe by experts under the conditions of its intended use. Phytosterol and Generally recognized as safe are food additives.

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Glucose test

Many types of glucose tests exist and they can be used to estimate blood sugar levels at a given time or, over a longer period of time, to obtain average levels or to see how fast body is able to normalize changed glucose levels.

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Glycated hemoglobin

Glycated hemoglobin, glycohemoglobin, glycosylated hemoglobin is a form of hemoglobin (Hb) that is chemically linked to a sugar.

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Glycolipid

Glycolipids are lipids with a carbohydrate attached by a glycosidic (covalent) bond.

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Health Canada

Health Canada (HC; Santé Canada, SC)Health Canada is the applied title under the Federal Identity Program; the legal title is Department of Health.

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HMG-CoA reductase

HMG-CoA reductase (3-hydroxy-3-methyl-glutaryl-coenzyme A reductase, official symbol HMGCR) is the rate-controlling enzyme (NADH-dependent,; NADPH-dependent) of the mevalonate pathway, the metabolic pathway that produces cholesterol and other isoprenoids.

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Hydrotreated vegetable oil

Hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) is a biofuel made by the hydrocracking or hydrogenation of vegetable oil.

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Hypercholesterolemia

Hypercholesterolemia, also called high cholesterol, is the presence of high levels of cholesterol in the blood.

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Isofucosterol

Isofucosterol, or 28-Isofucosterol, sometimes incorrectly called Δ-5-Avenasterol, is the E–Z isomer of Fucosterol and position isomer of Δ-7-Avenasterol.

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Low-density lipoprotein

Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) is one of the five major groups of lipoprotein that transport all fat molecules around the body in extracellular water.

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Margarine

Margarine (also) is a spread used for flavoring, baking, and cooking.

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Mortality rate

Mortality rate, or death rate, is a measure of the number of deaths (in general, or due to a specific cause) in a particular population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit of time.

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Olive oil

Olive oil is a liquid fat obtained by pressing whole olives, the fruit of Olea europaea, a traditional tree crop of the Mediterranean Basin, and extracting the oil.

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Palm kernel oil

Palm kernel oil is an edible plant oil derived from the kernel of the oil palm tree Elaeis guineensis.

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Palm oil

Palm oil is an edible vegetable oil derived from the mesocarp (reddish pulp) of the fruit of oil palms.

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Peanut oil

Peanut oil, also known as groundnut oil or arachis oil, is a vegetable oil derived from peanuts.

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Phytosteroid

Phytosteroids, also known as plant steroids, are naturally occurring steroids that are found in plants.

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Plant

Plants are the eukaryotes that form the kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly photosynthetic.

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Rapeseed oil

Close-up of canola blooms Canola flower Rapeseed oil is one of the oldest known vegetable oils.

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Saturated fat

A saturated fat is a type of fat in which the fatty acid chains have all single bonds between the carbon atoms.

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Sitosterolemia

Sitosterolemia is a rare autosomal recessively inherited lipid metabolic disorder.

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Soybean oil

Soybean oil (British English: soyabean oil) is a vegetable oil extracted from the seeds of the soybean (Glycine max).

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Stanol ester

Stanol esters is a heterogeneous group of chemical compounds known to reduce the level of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol in blood when ingested, though to a much lesser degree than prescription drugs such as statins.

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Statin

Statins (or HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors) are a class of medications that reduce illness and mortality in people who are at high risk of cardiovascular disease.

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Sterol

Sterol is an organic compound with formula, whose molecule is derived from that of gonane by replacement of a hydrogen atom on C3 position by a hydroxyl group.

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Sterol ester

Sterol esters are a heterogeneous group of chemical compounds.

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Stigmastanol

Stigmastanol (sitostanol) is a phytosterol found in a variety of plant sources. Phytosterol and Stigmastanol are phytosterols.

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Stigmasterol

Stigmasterol – a plant sterol (phytosterol) – is among the most abundant of plant sterols, having a major function to maintain the structure and physiology of cell membranes. Phytosterol and Stigmasterol are phytosterols.

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Sunflower oil

Sunflower oil is the non-volatile oil pressed from the seeds of the sunflower (Helianthus annuus).

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Vegetable oil

Vegetable oils, or vegetable fats, are oils extracted from seeds or from other parts of edible plants.

See Phytosterol and Vegetable oil

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytosterol

Also known as Phytosterols, Plant sterol, Plant sterols.

, Sterol ester, Stigmastanol, Stigmasterol, Sunflower oil, Vegetable oil.

Phytosterol, the Glossary

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See also

Hypolipidemic agents

Phytochemicals

Phytosterols

References