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and may be used in food manufacturing to increase the phytosterol content, potentially lowering the levels of LDL cholesterol.

Discovery

Once called Wulzen factor in the mid-20th century, stigmasterol was discovered by the University of California physiologist Rosalind Wulzen (born 1886).

Natural occurrences

Stigmasterol is an unsaturated phytosterol

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