Review of health functional foods for serum cholesterol-regulating
XU Chun-ping
YANG Chen-chen
Abstract：Starting from the analysis of the current Chinese dietary transition problem and the relationship with high incidence of the diseasecardiovascular disease,the main factors causing increase in serum choles-terol levels and the cholesterol -regulating nutraceuticals and functional foods was reviewed.The diet characteristics resulted in the increase of serum cholesterol were high-fat,high-calorie,low-carbohydrate and low fiber compounds.The natural compounds for serum cholesterol regulation were HMG-CoA reduc-tase inhibitors,LDL receptor activators,NPC1 L1 competitors,intestinal ACAT inhibitors,bile acid re-ab-sorption inhibitor/bile acid binding resin and CETP inhibitors.The cholesterol-regulating functional foods included dietary fibers,hawthorn flavonoids,apple polyphenols,buck wheat,etc.
Keywords：serum cholesterolcardiovascular diseasedietary transitionnutraceuticalfunctional food
Publication Date：2014-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 44-47 )