Phytosterols A0EVQ Core term * RPC Derivatives/ ingredients **

The group includes Phytosterols, which encompass plant sterols and stanols, used as fortifying agents. They are steroid compounds similar to cholesterol which occur in plants and vary only in carbon side chains and/or presence or absence of a double bond. The part consumed/analysed is by default the whole or a portion of it representing the observed heterogeneity.

Core term (Level of detail)

A standard food term, suitable as a base term in a FoodEx2 code. ↩

RPC Derivatives/ ingredients (Type of Term)

A food made from a single commodity by a process that changes its nature, such as flour from grain or oil from seeds. ↩

Implicit facet descriptors *

Facet descriptor

Implicit facet descriptors are characteristics a food already implies, so they are left out of its FoodEx2 code. For example, "smoked salmon" (A02KF) implies the facet descriptor "smoking" (F28.A07JV); because the term itself already conveys it, it is not added to the code. ↩

Narrower terms

These are child terms of the current term, "Phytosterols".

Phytosterols has no narrower terms in All Lists.

Sibling terms

Other terms sharing the same "Phytochemicals" parent term.

Record metadata

Status
APPROVED
Version
8.1
Valid from
16 Mar 2015, 23:19
Valid to
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Last update
15 Apr 2017, 16:24