The role of phytosterols in terms of medicine and food

Phytosterol is a kind of material with physiological activity, and extracted directly from plants using supercritical carbon dioxide extraction technology, so it does not contain any organic solvent and metal ions of unknown components, can be widely used in medicine, food, feed and other industries.
In medicine, it can reduce the body's cholesterol, repair, inhibition of tumor growth. Sterol emulsion performance and good stability, can be used as biochemical reagents and pharmaceutical raw materials, especially the growth Vitamin D3 raw materials and a variety of steroid hormone intermediates AD, ADD and plant hormone of raw materials, can also be used for drug emulsifier. In food, sterols can be used to prevent the deterioration of frying oil antioxidant. Sterol can also be used for printing ink nourishment dispersing agent; softening agent in textile industry; antioxidant beverage industry.