Because of its chemical structure, phytosterols have great application value in medicine.

Pharmaceutical raw material demand

Because of its chemical structure, phytosterol has great application value in medicine. With the industrial application and popularization of the technology of producing androstenedione (4AD) by fermentation of phytosterol, the demand of phytosterol as pharmaceutical raw material will be further expanded.

Food Additive Demand

In the field of food additives, phytosterols have been widely used as new functional food additives in recent years because of their health effects such as lowering cholesterol and preventing cardiovascular diseases.

Feed field demand

Phytosterols can improve poultry carcass quality and reduce cholesterol content in poultry products. Animals cannot synthesize phytosterols by themselves, and can only obtain a certain amount of phytosterols through digestion and absorption of food.

1. The addition of phytosterols in broiler diets can significantly reduce the levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and serum total cholesterol.

2, in the diet of meat ducks to add phytosterols, plasma total superoxide dismutase activity increased significantly, the concentration of malondialdehyde decreased with the increase of phytosterols concentration, phytosterols on the feed conversion rate of meat ducks, average body weight and average daily gain had no significant effect.

3. Adding phytosterols to the basic diet of dairy cows can balance the intake of energy and protein, improve the milk production performance of dairy cows, and be more economical and effective. Adding appropriate amount of phytosterols can improve milk quality and increase milk yield.

4. Phytosterols added to pig diets were found to increase the average daily gain of growing pigs and significantly reduce the feed-to-weight ratio.