Cholesterol is a fatty substance that in the correct amount is essential for your body. However, too much of it is not good for heart health. Also, it’s not just the total blood cholesterol that is important for our health, the amount of the good (HDL) cholesterol and the bad (LDL) cholesterol that we have is equally important.
Eating foods that are high in saturated fat (eg processed meats and full fat dairy foods) can raise the bad cholesterol levels in your blood. This is why we are advised to limit foods high in saturated fat and swap to foods low in saturated fat or containing unsaturated fat – the good fats that can actually lower cholesterol levels.
Provamel soya foods are good for cholesterol because they are not only low in saturated fat, they also contain the good fats known to lower cholesterol.
Additionally, the soya protein found in Organic Provamel products actively lowers the bad cholesterol*. One can achieve this by having 2-4 servings of Provamel soya foods a day depending on the soya protein content of each product.
* It has been proven that the inclusion of at least 25g of soya protein in your diet, as part of a diet low in saturated fat, can help lower blood cholesterol (Joint Health Claims Initiative 2002)”.