> There is a widespread belief among the public and even among chemists that plants do not contain cholesterol.
> This error is the result (in part) of the fact that plants generally contain only small quantities of cholesterol and that analytical methods for the detection of cholesterol in this range were not well developed until recently (1).
> Another reason has to do with the legalities of food labeling that allow small quantities of cholesterol in foods to be called zero (2).
> The fact is that cholesterol is widespread in the plant kingdom although other related sterols, such as β-sitosterol (henceforth referred to as sitosterol), generally occur in larger quantities.
> No current biochemistry text that we have examined provides an accurate account of cholesterol in plants.
> There is a widespread belief among the public and even among chemists that plants do not contain cholesterol.
> This error is the result (in part) of the fact that plants generally contain only small quantities of cholesterol and that analytical methods for the detection of cholesterol in this range were not well developed until recently (1).
> Another reason has to do with the legalities of food labeling that allow small quantities of cholesterol in foods to be called zero (2).
> The fact is that cholesterol is widespread in the plant kingdom although other related sterols, such as β-sitosterol (henceforth referred to as sitosterol), generally occur in larger quantities.
> No current biochemistry text that we have examined provides an accurate account of cholesterol in plants.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/ed082p1791 [2005]
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