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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food. ...Hippocrates |
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List of Foods (with High Phytosterol) That Help Lower Serum Cholesterol
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| Phytosterol food sources | Total phytosterol content (mg/100g) |
| Nuts | |
| Cashew |
158
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| Almond |
143
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| Pecan |
108
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| Pistachio |
108
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| Walnut |
108
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| Legumes | |
| Pea |
135
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| Kidney bean |
127
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| Broad bean |
124
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(Source: Kritchevsky, D. 1997.)
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Sources:
Kritchevsky, D. 1997. Phytosterols: IN Dietary fiber in Health and Disease. (Eds.) Kristchevsky and Bonfield., Plenum Press, New York, 427: 235 – 242.
Ostlund, R. E., Jr, Racette, S. B., and Stenson, W. F. 2003. Inhibition of cholesterol absorption by phytosterol-replete wheat germ compared with phytosterol-depleted wheat germ. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 77(6): 1385 - 1589.
Ling WH, Jones PJH. 1995. Dietary phytosterols: A review of metabolism, benefits, and side effects. Life Sci 57:195–206.