A study with growing chicks and adult roosters indicated that dietary saponin will depress blood plasma cholesterol previously elevated by feeding low protein levels in presence and absence of dietary cholesterol. It is suggested that complexing of saponin with cholesterol secreted in the intestinal lumen makes less cholesterol available for reabsorption from the intestinal tract.
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Griminger et al. (1958) studied this question.