Increased intake of fruit and vegetables and a low‐fat diet, with and without low‐fat plant sterol‐enriched spread consumption: effects on plasma lipoprotein and carotenoid metabolism

Abstract

Dietary advice to increase daily fruit and vegetable consumption may be effective in preventing a reduction in plasma carotenoid concentrations previously associated with PSE consumption. Further, PSE incorporated in a low-fat spread and consumed as part of a NCEP Step 1 diet are effective in reducing total and LDL cholesterol.