Since the diet alone is unable to offer the effective intake required
to deliver the health benefits of PS, a large variety of commercial
foods have been enriched with free or esterified PS, including spreads,
which were the first commercial applications of PS-enriched foods.
Since the approval of spreads in the European Union (EU), several more
approvals have been issued for the addition of phytosterol to other food
categories such as milk-based fruit beverages