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SUBMITTER: Blanco-Morales V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9127961 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Blanco-Morales Virginia V Silvestre Ramona de Los Ángeles RLÁ Hernández-Álvarez Elena E Donoso-Navarro Encarnación E Alegría Amparo A Garcia-Llatas Guadalupe G
Journal of agricultural and food chemistry 20220111 2
In the present study, the impact of galactooligosaccharide (GOS) addition to a plant sterol (PS)-enriched beverage on the hypocholesterolemic effect and on the bioavailability and colonic metabolization of sterols was evaluated. A crossover trial was undertaken in postmenopausal women who intook a PS-enriched (2 g PS/day) or PS-GOS-enriched beverage (2 g PS/day and 4.3 g GOS/day) for 6 weeks. The presence of GOS did not modify the hypocholesterolemic effect of the PS-enriched beverage (total- an ...[more]