UK – Retail multiple Tesco, has started sales of a cheese which prevents harmful cholesterol from getting into the body.

Called ‘A Healthy Alternative to Cheese’, the product was developed by researchers at Cambridge University and is made from milk which has all its dairy fat removed and replaced with a vegetable oil which is naturally high in plant sterols.

The plant sterols block off special receptor sites, thus preventing cholesterol from entering the blood stream. Tesco claims that tests of the cheese show that it can cut cholesterol by as much as 20% in three weeks.