Benecol® Ireland offers a range of tasty foods with added plant stanols, including yogurt drinks, yogurts and spreads. Simply having 2g of plant stanols daily, with meals, can lower your cholesterol by 7-10% in 2-3 weeks*.

The cholesterol lowering efficacy of plant stanols in Benecol® products has been proven in over 80 clinical studies. Many international guidelines such as the ESC/EAS Guidelines for the Management of Dyslipidaemias, recommend the use of plant stanols in functional foods as part of healthy lifestyle changes**.

For more information on how Benecol® products work, alone or in combination with cholesterol lowering medication, visit our website https://hcp.benecol.ie. Here you will find a range of useful resources to help inform you and your patients about the cholesterol-lowering benefits of plant stanols.

*Plant stanol ester has been shown to lower cholesterol. High cholesterol is a risk factor in the development of coronary heart disease. A daily intake of 1.5–2.4g plant stanols lowers cholesterol by 7–10% in 2–3 weeks.
**2025 Focused Update of the 2019 ESC/EAS Guidelines for the Management of Dyslipidaemias. Eur Heart J. 2025;46(42):4359–4378.
doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehaf190 and 2019 ESC/EAS Guidelines for the management of dyslipidaemias: lipid modification to reduce cardiovascular
risk: The Task Force for the management of dyslipidaemias of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and European Atherosclerosis Society
(EAS) European Heart Journal, Volume 41, Issue 1, 1 January 2020, Pages 111–188