Cholesterol is a derivative of the cyclopenta more thin, is human body cell membrane phase structure and an important component of nerve myelin, weig is 70 kg of normal person, containing about 140 grams of cholesterol in the body, as early as the 18th , people have found cholesterol in bile stone chemists the herschel in 1816 will be a name to this with the nature of the lipid material cholesterol cholesterol widely exists in animals, especially in the most abundant in the brain and nerve tissue in the liver and kidney and spleen skin bile content is high also its solubility is similar to fat, insoluble in water, soluble in ether choroform solvent, etc.
Function:
1.It is an important raw material for using as an emulsifier.
2.Cholesterol in nature is mainly found in animal foods. A few plants have cholesterol, and most plants have a substance structurally similar to cholesterol-plant sterols. Phytosterols have no atherogenic effect. In the intestinal mucosa, phytosterols (especially sitosterol) can competitively inhibit cholesterol absorption.
Appilication
1. [food industry]: used for dairy food, meat food, baked food, noodles food, various drinks, candy, seasoning food, etc.
2. [pharmaceutical manufacturing]: health food, base material, filler, biological medicine, pharmaceutical raw materials, etc.
3. [industrial products]: petroleum industry, manufacturing industry, agricultural products, scientific and technological research and development, battery, precision casting, etc.
4. [other industries]: it can be used as flavoring and antifreeze moisturizer instead of glycerin.
5, [daily chemicals]: facial cleanser, beauty cream, make-up water, shampoo, toothpaste, shower gel, mask, etc.
6. [feed veterinary medicine]: canned pet, animal feed, nutrition feed, genetically modified feed R & D, aquatic feed, vitamin feed, veterinary medicine products, etc.
7. [experimental reagent]: can be used in various experimental research and development, etc.