Foods high in Selenium

Selenium survives cooking and storage well, but refining removes it. Whole grains retain more selenium than white flour; unpolished rice outranks polished. Fortification can restore what milling takes away, so check the label on refined products to see if selenium was added back.

Selenium concentrates in animal products and Brazil nuts, with seafood and poultry leading most rankings. Soil content varies by region, so the selenium in plant foods depends partly on where they grew. The ranking shows what is there per 100 g, not how much your body actually absorbs from each food.

FDA daily value: 55 mcg

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Showing 101–150 of 11,388 foods

#	Food	Category	Per 100 g	% DV	Source
101	Chicken, stewing, giblets, simmered	Poultry Products	90.40 mcg	164%	CNF
102	Game meat, native, walrus, meat, raw	Lamb, Veal and Game	90.00 mcg	164%	CNF
103	Mollusks, octopus, common, cooked, moist heat	Finfish and Shellfish Products	89.60 mcg	163%	USDA_SR
104	Mollusks, mussel, blue, cooked, moist heat	Finfish and Shellfish Products	89.60 mcg	163%	USDA_SR
105	Mollusks, cuttlefish, mixed species, cooked, moist heat	Finfish and Shellfish Products	89.60 mcg	163%	USDA_SR
106	Mollusks, whelk, unspecified, cooked, moist heat	Finfish and Shellfish Products	89.60 mcg	163%	USDA_SR
107	Mollusks, octopus, common, boiled or steamed	Finfish and Shellfish Products	89.60 mcg	163%	CNF
108	Mollusks, cuttlefish, mixed spsecies, boiled or steamed	Finfish and Shellfish Products	89.60 mcg	163%	CNF
109	Mollusks, whelk, unspecified, boiled or steamed	Finfish and Shellfish Products	89.60 mcg	163%	CNF
110	Mollusks, mussel, blue, boiled or steamed	Finfish and Shellfish Products	89.60 mcg	163%	CNF
111	Wheat, durum	Cereal Grains and Pasta	89.40 mcg	163%	USDA_SR
112	Semolina, enriched	Cereal Grains and Pasta	89.40 mcg	163%	USDA_SR
113	Grains, wheat, durum	Cereals, Grains and Pasta	89.40 mcg	163%	CNF
114	Cereals ready-to-eat, UNCLE SAM CEREAL	Breakfast Cereals	88.30 mcg	161%	USDA_SR
115	Fish, roughy, orange, cooked, dry heat	Finfish and Shellfish Products	88.30 mcg	161%	USDA_SR
116	Fish, orange roughy, baked or broiled	Finfish and Shellfish Products	88.30 mcg	161%	CNF
117	Chicken, liver, all classes, cooked, pan-fried	Poultry Products	88.20 mcg	160%	USDA_SR
118	Chicken, liver, all classes, cooked, pan-fried	Poultry Products	88.20 mcg	160%	CNF
119	Beverages, nutritional shake mix, high protein, powder	Beverages	87.50 mcg	159%	USDA_SR
120	Beverages, high protein powder	Beverages	87.50 mcg	159%	CNF
121	Cereal, ready to eat, Kashi: honey puffed, Kashi	Breakfast cereals	83.30 mcg	151%	CNF
122	Lamb, variety meats and by-products, liver, raw	Lamb, Veal, and Game Products	82.40 mcg	150%	USDA_SR
123	Chicken, liver, all classes, cooked, simmered	Poultry Products	82.40 mcg	150%	USDA_SR
124	Lamb, liver, raw	Lamb, Veal and Game	82.40 mcg	150%	CNF
125	Chicken, broiler, liver, simmered	Poultry Products	82.40 mcg	150%	CNF
126	Wheat, KAMUT khorasan, uncooked	Cereal Grains and Pasta	81.50 mcg	148%	USDA_SR
127	Grains, wheat, kamut khorasan, uncooked	Cereals, Grains and Pasta	81.50 mcg	148%	CNF
128	Veal, variety meats and by-products, spleen, cooked, braised	Lamb, Veal, and Game Products	81.20 mcg	148%	USDA_SR
129	Veal, spleen, braised	Lamb, Veal and Game	81.20 mcg	148%	CNF
130	Seeds, sunflower seed kernels, dry roasted, with salt added	Nut and Seed Products	80.40 mcg	146%	USDA_FF
131	Fish, tuna, light, canned in water, without salt, drained solids	Finfish and Shellfish Products	80.40 mcg	146%	USDA_SR
132	Fish, tuna, light, canned in water, drained, unsalted	Finfish and Shellfish Products	80.40 mcg	146%	CNF
133	Veal, variety meats and by-products, kidneys, raw	Lamb, Veal, and Game Products	80.00 mcg	145%	USDA_SR
134	Veal, kidney, raw	Lamb, Veal and Game	80.00 mcg	145%	CNF
135	Seeds, sunflower seed kernels, dry roasted, without salt	Nut and Seed Products	79.30 mcg	144%	USDA_SR
136	Seeds, sunflower seed kernels, dry roasted, with salt added	Nut and Seed Products	79.30 mcg	144%	USDA_SR
137	Seeds, sunflower seed kernels from shell, dry roasted, with salt added	Nut and Seed Products	79.30 mcg	144%	USDA_SR
138	Seeds, sunflower seed kernels, dry roasted, salted	Nuts and Seeds	79.30 mcg	144%	CNF
139	Seeds, sunflower seed kernels, dry roasted	Nuts and Seeds	79.30 mcg	144%	CNF
140	Wheat germ, crude	Cereal Grains and Pasta	79.20 mcg	144%	USDA_SR
141	Grains, wheat germ, crude	Cereals, Grains and Pasta	79.20 mcg	144%	CNF
142	Noodles, egg, dry, unenriched	Cereal Grains and Pasta	78.80 mcg	143%	USDA_SR
143	Noodles, egg, dry, enriched	Cereal Grains and Pasta	78.80 mcg	143%	USDA_SR
144	Pasta, egg noodles, unenriched, dry	Cereals, Grains and Pasta	78.80 mcg	143%	CNF
145	Pasta, egg noodles, enriched, dry	Cereals, Grains and Pasta	78.80 mcg	143%	CNF
146	Seeds, sunflower seed kernels, oil roasted, without salt	Nut and Seed Products	78.20 mcg	142%	USDA_SR
147	Seeds, sunflower seed kernels, oil roasted, with salt added	Nut and Seed Products	78.20 mcg	142%	USDA_SR
148	Seeds, sunflower seed kernels, oil roasted	Nuts and Seeds	78.20 mcg	142%	CNF
149	Seeds, sunflower seed kernels, oil roasted, salted	Nuts and Seeds	78.20 mcg	142%	CNF
150	Pasta, whole-wheat, dry (Includes foods for USDA's Food Distribution Program)	Cereal Grains and Pasta	77.60 mcg	141%	USDA_SR

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Foods high in Selenium

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