Your body makes most of the cholesterol it needs. Dietary cholesterol does reach your bloodstream, but how much depends on your gut bacteria, genes, and what else you eat alongside it. This ranking shows the raw amount per 100 g; not how much will actually enter your blood.
Cholesterol lives almost entirely in animal tissues: meat, organ meats, eggs, and dairy. Plant foods contain none. When you read this ranking, remember that no single food determines your blood cholesterol. Your overall diet pattern, body weight, and genetics matter far more.
On a vegetarian or vegan diet, dietary cholesterol drops to near zero. Your liver compensates by making more, since the body needs it for cell membranes, hormones, and vitamin D synthesis. If you avoid animal foods, you cannot get dietary cholesterol from food; only from your own production. Fortified foods do not contain it.
FDA daily value: 300 mg
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Showing 1–50 of 395 foods
| # | Food | Category | Per 100 g | % DV |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cookie, ladyfinger (with lemon juice and rind) | Baked Products | 221.00 mg | 74% |
| 2 | Cookie, ladyfinger (without lemon juice or peel) | Baked Products | 221.00 mg | 74% |
| 3 | Cake, sponge, homemade | Baked Products | 170.00 mg | 57% |
| 4 | Dessert, mousse, chocolate, homemade | Sweets | 140.00 mg | 47% |
| 5 | Animal fat, native, walrus, oil | Fats and Oils | 120.00 mg | 40% |
| 6 | Spinach souffle, homemade | Vegetables and Vegetable Products | 118.00 mg | 39% |
| 7 | Danish pastry, fruit (apple, raisin, lemon, raspberry) | Baked Products | 114.00 mg | 38% |
| 8 | Cake, pound, homemade | Baked Products | 106.00 mg | 35% |
| 9 | Candies, toffee, homemade | Sweets | 104.00 mg | 35% |
| 10 | Cake, sponge, commercial | Baked Products | 102.00 mg | 34% |
| 11 | Sugar pie, 1 crust, homemade | Baked Products | 96.00 mg | 32% |
| 12 | Pasta, egg noodles, spinach, enriched, dry | Cereals, Grains and Pasta | 95.00 mg | 32% |
| 13 | Potato pancake, homemade | Vegetables and Vegetable Products | 95.00 mg | 32% |
| 14 | Cookie, shortbread, plain, homemade | Baked Products | 93.00 mg | 31% |
| 15 | Pie, pecan, homemade | Baked Products | 87.00 mg | 29% |
| 16 | Pasta, egg noodles, unenriched, dry | Cereals, Grains and Pasta | 84.00 mg | 28% |
| 17 | Pasta, egg noodles, enriched, dry | Cereals, Grains and Pasta | 84.00 mg | 28% |
| 18 | French toast, frozen, ready to heat | Baked Products | 82.00 mg | 27% |
| 19 | Sandwich spread, with chopped pickle, regular, unspecified oil | Fats and Oils | 76.00 mg | 25% |
| 20 | Cake, yellow, commercial, with vanilla (white) icing (frosting) | Baked Products | 75.00 mg | 25% |
| 21 | Cookie, brownie, homemade | Baked Products | 73.00 mg | 24% |
| 22 | Pasta, fresh-refrigerated, spinach, as purchased | Cereals, Grains and Pasta | 73.00 mg | 24% |
| 23 | Pasta, fresh-refrigerated, plain, as purchased | Cereals, Grains and Pasta | 73.00 mg | 24% |
| 24 | Corn pudding , homemade | Vegetables and Vegetable Products | 72.00 mg | 24% |
| 25 | Animal fat, native, seal oil | Fats and Oils | 69.00 mg | 23% |
| 26 | Waffle, plain, homemade | Baked Products | 69.00 mg | 23% |
| 27 | Potato salad, homemade | Vegetables and Vegetable Products | 68.00 mg | 23% |
| 28 | Sweet roll, cinnamon with raisins, commercial | Baked Products | 66.00 mg | 22% |
| 29 | Corn fritter | Baked Products | 61.00 mg | 20% |
| 30 | Fast foods, side dish, potato salad | Fast Foods | 60.00 mg | 20% |
| 31 | Muffin, blueberry, dry mix, prepared | Baked Products | 60.00 mg | 20% |
| 32 | Muffin, wheat bran, dry mix, prepared | Baked Products | 60.00 mg | 20% |
| 33 | Pancake, plain, homemade | Baked Products | 59.00 mg | 20% |
| 34 | Cake, chocolate, homemade, without icing (frosting) | Baked Products | 58.00 mg | 19% |
| 35 | Bread pudding, with raisins, homemade | Baked Products | 58.00 mg | 19% |
| 36 | Doughnut (donut), cake-type, chocolate, sugared or glazed | Baked Products | 57.00 mg | 19% |
| 37 | Bread, cornbread (also corn muffin mix), dry mix, prepared | Baked Products | 57.00 mg | 19% |
| 38 | Sauce, Alfredo, dehydrated | Soups, Sauces and Gravies | 56.00 mg | 19% |
| 39 | Shortening, household, unspecified vegetable and animal oils | Fats and Oils | 56.00 mg | 19% |
| 40 | Pancake, blueberry, homemade | Baked Products | 56.00 mg | 19% |
| 41 | Cake, yellow, homemade, without icing (frosting) | Baked Products | 54.00 mg | 18% |
| 42 | Fast foods, entree, chili con carne | Fast Foods | 53.00 mg | 18% |
| 43 | Pie, lemon meringue, homemade | Baked Products | 53.00 mg | 18% |
| 44 | Candies, bars, Skor | Sweets | 53.00 mg | 18% |
| 45 | Candies, truffles, homemade | Sweets | 53.00 mg | 18% |
| 46 | Animal fat, native, bearded seal, oil (oogruk oil) | Fats and Oils | 52.00 mg | 17% |
| 47 | Cookie, vanilla wafer, 12 to 17% fat | Baked Products | 51.00 mg | 17% |
| 48 | Salad dressing, peppercorn dressing, commercial, regular | Fats and Oils | 49.00 mg | 16% |
| 49 | Coffee cake, cinnamon with crumb topping, dry mix, prepared | Baked Products | 49.00 mg | 16% |
| 50 | Dessert, pudding, lemon, dry mix, regular, prepared | Sweets | 49.00 mg | 16% |
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