Opting for Quorn instead of meat could be comparable to consuming the Mediterranean diet when it comes to lowering bad cholesterol, says a new study.
The remotely-delivered study, by scientists at the University of Exeter and published in Clinical Nutrition, involved 72 overweight adults with high cholesterol levels.
Scientists found that those who ate 180g of Quorn products daily – equivalent to two servings of Quorn mince – experienced a 10 per cent reduction in ‘bad’ LDL cholesterol over the four-week study period.
To put this into context, the researchers noted that ‘typical doses of atorvastatin, the most popular statin prescribed by the NHS to treat high cholesterol, commonly yield a 0.3 – 1.3 mmol/l reduction after 12 months’.
