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Characteristics of users and nonusers of plant stanol ester margarine in Finland: an approach to study functional foods.
Meri Anttolainen,Riitta Luoto,Antti Uutela,John D. Boice,William J. Blot,Joseph K. McLaughlin,Pekka Puska +6 more
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This article is published in Journal of The American Dietetic Association.The article was published on 2001-11-01. It has received 65 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Plant stanol ester.read more
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Functional food. Product development, marketing and consumer acceptance--a review.
TL;DR: A brief overview of the current functional food market situation in USA, Japan and some European countries is offered with some comments on functional food future potential.
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Efficacy and Safety of Plant Stanols and Sterols in the Management of Blood Cholesterol Levels
Martijn B. Katan,Scott M. Grundy,Peter B. Jones,Malcolm Law,Tatu A. Miettinen,Rodolfo Paoletti +5 more
TL;DR: Present evidence is sufficient to promote use of sterols and stanols for lowering LDL cholesterol levels in persons at increased risk for coronary heart disease.
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Demographic and lifestyle characteristics of functional food consumers and dietary supplement users.
TL;DR: Determinants of functional food or supplement use depended on the type of product, so generalisation of consumer characteristics over different foods is not legitimate.
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'All foods affect health': understandings of functional foods and healthy eating among health-oriented Finns.
TL;DR: Analysis of lay understandings of health-promoting foods in Finland by examining the ways in which middle-aged health-oriented consumers make sense of functional foods in the context of healthy eating indicates that consumers interpret functional foods and healthy eating from a variety of perspectives.
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Consumer appeal of nutrition and health claims in three existing product concepts
TL;DR: The interaction effects between claim type and product concept indicated that reduction of disease risk claims are perceived very well in omega-3 enriched spreads, particularly in terms of perceived convincingness of the claim, while not appealing to consumers in the other product concepts.
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Reduction of serum cholesterol with sitostanol-ester margarine in a mildly hypercholesterolemic population
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors tested the tolerability and cholesterol-lowering effect of margarine containing sitostanol ester in a population with mild hypercholesterolemia.
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Plant sterol and stanol margarines and health.
TL;DR: If stanols and sterols become cheaper, their introduction into the food chain will make them an important innovation in the primary prevention of heart disease.
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Plant sterol-enriched margarines and reduction of plasma total- and LDL-cholesterol concentrations in normocholesterolaemic and mildly hypercholesterolaemic subjects
JA Weststrate,GW Meijer +1 more
TL;DR: A margarine with sterol-esters from soybean oil, mainly esters from sitosterol, campesterol and stigmasterol, is as effective as a margarines enriched with sitostanol-ester in lowering blood total- and LDL-cholesterol levels without affecting HDL-ch cholesterol concentrations.
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Dietary phytosterols: A review of metabolism, benefits and side effects
W.H Ling,Peter B. Jones +1 more
TL;DR: Further characterization of the influence of various phytosterol subcomponents on lipoprotein profiles in humans is required to maximize the usefulness of this non-pharmacological approach to reduction of atherosclerosis in the population.