Assessment of Plant Sterols in the Diet of Adult Polish Population with the Use of a Newly Developed Database

Plant sterols are compounds with multiple biological functions, mainly cholesterol-reducing. There no comprehensive databases on plant sterols, which makes it difficult to estimate their intake in the Polish population. This work attempted use international food databases, additionally supplemented by scientific data from literature, create a database of would cover various kinds foods and dishes consumed Poland. The aim was assess size sources dietary adult population literature search conducted using PubMed, Web Science, Scopus, Google Scholar identify possible published composition for sterols. study group consisted 5690 participants WOBASZ II survey. We identified 361 based consumption reported participants. Cereals fats provided 61% total together vegetables fruits, this totaled 80%. median 255.96 mg/day, men women 291.76 230.61 respectively. Canola oil most at 16.92%, followed white bread 16.65% soft margarine 8.33%. found that sterol Poland is comparable other populations, women’s diets more dense Due lack content some foods, future studies should expand complete foods.