FREE AND BOUND STEROLS IN VEGETABLE FATS

Abstract

Investigations of 15 different vegetable fats have shown that lipoproteins, detected in raw palm oil, occur in other fats, too. The cholesterol content in the sterols of lipoproteins is not always the same; but it is in any case higher than in other sterol containing fractions of these fats. The investigation of the free sterols, sterol esters, sterol glycosides and sterol containing lipoproteins in these 15 fats shows that cholesterol occurs more or less in all vegetable fats, but in an analytically difficult accessible way.