植物固醇（英语：Phytosterol，亦称为植物甾醇）是存在于高等植物中的固醇。在临床试验中，植物固醇显示出可以阻断人体肠道中的胆固醇吸收位点，因此可以帮助减少人体中的胆固醇水平。他们也被美国食品药品监督管理局所认可，可以被作为食品添加剂使用；然而，也有人担心他们可能不仅仅阻断胆固醇的吸收，同时也可能会阻断其他重要营养物质的吸收。目前，美国心脏协会已建议只有被确诊胆固醇升高时才应该补充植物固醇，尤其不建议孕妇或乳母食用植物固醇。

Phytosterols, which encompass plant sterols and stanols, are steroid compounds similar to cholesterol which occur in plants and vary only in carbon side chains and/or presence or absence of a double bond. Stanols are saturated sterols, having no double bonds in the sterol ring structure. More than 200 sterols and related compounds have been identified. Free phytosterols extracted from oils are insoluble in water, relatively insoluble in oil, and soluble in alcohols.