Plant sterol and stanol consumption by those like children who do not have raised cholesterol could itself lead to heart problems, the German foods safety agency has said.
A new sterol-containing cracker was launched across the US this week by leading nutritional snack firm Kashi, proving yet another indication that the sterol food category is slowly but surely expanding.
Cargill plans to use next month's Health Ingredients Europe event
to unveil a number of products that food and beverage manufacturers
can use in future product launches.
Cholesterol-lowering plant sterols look set to appear in more
product categories in Europe, since the EC Commission has given the
green-light for their use in dietary supplements and rye breads.
Snacking on bars containing plant sterols and glucomannan could
improve cholesterol levels of both diabetic and non-diabetics, but
had no effect on glucose control, reports a Canadian study.
The UK's Food Standards Agency has received an application for a
phytosterols ingredient to be approved as 'substantially
equivalent' to one already on the market.
An innovative technology that allows for the addition of both plant
sterols and minerals to foods has won the backing of leading US
food manufacturer General Mills, which has licensed the product for
use in a range of foods.