Dietary cholesterol. Its effect on blood cholesterol is smaller and more variable between people than once assumed.
Every figure here is per 100 g of the food, not per serving. That makes foods comparable to each other, but it is not how anyone eats: 100 g of a dried spice and 100 g of a leafy green are very different portions, so a high position in this list does not tell you what a meal contributes.
Nutrient values are per 100 g of the USDA reference entry named on this page and vary with variety, growing conditions, storage and preparation.
% DV compares the per-100 g amount with the FDA Daily Value of 300 mg for adults and children aged 4 and over. It is a labelling reference, not a personal target.
24 entries with a measured cholesterol value, highest first.
Gallus gallus domesticus
The fat-soluble half of the egg, carrying essentially all of its fat, cholesterol, fat-soluble vitamins, choline and carotenoid…
362% of the Daily Value per 100 g
Gallus gallus domesticus
A complete package of protein, fat and micronutrients built to grow a chick, split between a protein-and-water white and a…
124% of the Daily Value per 100 g
Gallus gallus domesticus
A small, soft organ meat with a milder flavour and finer texture than beef liver, which is why it dominates pâtés and parfaits.…
115% of the Daily Value per 100 g
Bos taurus
The metabolic and storage organ of cattle, and consequently one of the most nutrient-concentrated foods in the human diet by a…
92% of the Daily Value per 100 g
Cream churned until the fat globules coalesce and separate from the buttermilk, leaving a product that is overwhelmingly fat.…
72% of the Daily Value per 100 g
Sardina pilchardus
Small schooling fish canned whole with their soft, edible bones intact. Being short-lived plankton feeders low in the food chain,…
47% of the Daily Value per 100 g
Penaeus spp.
Decapod crustaceans, the most traded seafood in the world by value and now largely farmed. Their shells contain astaxanthin bound…
42% of the Daily Value per 100 g
Gallus gallus domesticus
Dark leg meat, richer in myoglobin, fat and connective tissue than breast because these are the muscles the bird actually uses.…
31% of the Daily Value per 100 g
Cervidae spp.
Meat from deer, whether wild-harvested or farmed. Because the animals are active and rarely grain-finished, the carcass carries…
28% of the Daily Value per 100 g
Engraulis encrasicolus
Tiny oily fish usually sold salt-cured and packed in oil, where months of curing dissolves the flesh into an intensely savoury…
28% of the Daily Value per 100 g
Gallus gallus domesticus
The pectoral muscle of the chicken, made up largely of fast-twitch fibres, which is why it is pale and low in fat compared with…
28% of the Daily Value per 100 g
Scomber scombrus
A fast-swimming oily fish with dark, strongly flavoured flesh that spoils quickly and is therefore often smoked or canned. It is…
23% of the Daily Value per 100 g
A hard cheese aged a year or more, during which enzymes break down protein into free amino acids and the crystalline tyrosine…
23% of the Daily Value per 100 g
Bos taurus
Beef trimmings ground to a uniform texture and sold by lean-to-fat ratio, most commonly between 70% and 95% lean. The ratio is…
22% of the Daily Value per 100 g
Sus scrofa domesticus
A small muscle running along the inside of the spine that does almost no work, making it the leanest and most tender cut on the…
22% of the Daily Value per 100 g
Ovis aries
Meat from sheep slaughtered under about a year old, with a distinctive flavour that comes largely from branched-chain fatty acids…
21% of the Daily Value per 100 g
Meleagris gallopavo
The white pectoral muscle of the domestic turkey, leaner and larger-grained than chicken breast. Fresh roasting joints and…
19% of the Daily Value per 100 g
Salmo salar
The great majority of salmon sold worldwide, raised in sea pens on formulated feed. It is consistently fattier than wild salmon,…
18% of the Daily Value per 100 g
Salmo salar
An anadromous fish that feeds at sea and returns to fresh water to spawn. Its pink flesh comes from astaxanthin accumulated…
18% of the Daily Value per 100 g
Gadus morhua
A large cold-water groundfish with lean, flaky white flesh that stores its oil in the liver rather than the muscle. That anatomy…
14% of the Daily Value per 100 g
Crassostrea virginica
Filter-feeding bivalve molluscs, farmed and wild-harvested, whose flavour tracks the water they grew in closely enough that…
13% of the Daily Value per 100 g
Katsuwonus pelamis
Almost always skipjack, a small fast-growing tuna, cooked and canned in water or oil. It is a distinctly different product from…
10% of the Daily Value per 100 g
Mytilus edulis
Rope- or bottom-grown bivalves that need no feed input, making them one of the lowest-impact animal foods produced. They open…
9% of the Daily Value per 100 g
Milk fermented with Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus and Streptococcus thermophilus, which acidify it until the casein…
4% of the Daily Value per 100 g