A process for the recovery of sterols and tocopherols

A process for the enrichment and isolation of sterols and / or sterol from tocopherols and / or tocopherol mixtures of fats and / or fat derivatives, which contain glycerides, characterized in that (A) hydrolyzing a mixture of cleaving the present glycerides to free fatty acids and glycerol, (B) separating the glycerol-containing water gap, (C) separating the free fatty acids and unsaponifiable volatile components by distillation, (D) performing one or more further hydrolysis of the distillation residue to cleave the sterol esters to free fatty acids and free sterols, (E) separating the water gap and (F) the fatty acids formed are separated by distillation.