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Cholesterol and high cholesterol foods

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What foods contain cholesterol?

It is relatively easy to point out which foods contain cholesterol or not. Simply put, food sources which are derived from plants such as oatmeal, vegetables, fruit and nuts are free of cholesterol. While foods from animal sources do contain cholesterol such as milk, cheese, meat, fish, poultry and eggs.

Are fat and cholesterol the same?

Even though fat and cholesterol are often mentioned together they are not the same. Foods such as peanut butter maybe high in fat but contains no cholesterol, therefore high fat foods need not necessarily be high in cholesterol.

In animals cholesterol is part of the cell membrane structure of many types of cell, so by trimming away visible fat or removing the skin from chicken you are only removing some of the cholesterol, but a large portion of fat.

There is approximately 20 mg of cholesterol in 28 g of meat, whether it be Beef, Pork, Chicken, Turkey or Fish. This is because cholesterol is an integral part of the muscle cells and muscle tissue as a whole.

Dairy products are slightly different as their cholesterol content is dependant on the level of fat present. For example, milk is secreted from animals cells but the same as in animal muscle tissue, it has no cholesterol containing membranes. But as cholesterol is fat soluble, the cholesterol rides along with the fat in the milk, it is the same for other milk based products. So it can be seen that the more fat the dairy product contains the more cholesterol the said dairy product will contain.

High cholesterol foods.

The two highest concentrated sources of cholesterol are liver and eggs. The egg contains a large supply of cholesterol which is used to fortify the chicks cells before it hatches. The liver produces its own cholesterol so naturally liver will have a high content.

Levels of cholesterol in foods.

per 100 gm Cholesterol in mg per 100 gm Cholesterol in mg
Lean beef, fat removedBeef with fatMinced beef, fat reduced

Minced beef, regular

Pork loin, fat removed

Pork with fat

Ham

Bacon

Bologna

Bratwurst

Lamb, fat removed

Lamb with fat

Veal cutlet

Duck

Chicken, fried with skin

Chicken, roasted no skin

Turkey, dark meat

Turkey, light meat

Catfish, breaded and fried

Cod, baked

Haddock, baked

Salmon, baked

Tuna, packed in oil

Tuna, packed in water

818684

90

81

84

59

85

59

60

122

122

128

89

167

85

85

69

81

55

74

87

31

42

CrabClamsShrimp, breaded and fried

Shrimp, boiled

Lobster, boiled

Eggs, 2 whole

Eggs, 6 Yolks

Eggs, white no yolk

Full fat milk

Semi-skimmed milk

Skimmed milk

Yoghurt, low fat

Yoghurt, full fat

Cheddar cheese

Swiss cheese

Mozzarella

Processed cheese

Cream

Neufchatel

Cottage cheese

Dry curd

Ice milk

Ice cream, regular

Ice cream, deluxe

Sherbet

Cream

5967177

195

72

548

1602

0

14

7

2

6

13

107

93

54

64

111

76

15

7

7

44

59

7

137

 

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