If you are watching your total cholesterol levels, your doctor may have asked you to change your diet by restricting some foods.
Here is a list of breakfast, lunch, dinner, and desserts with choices for lowering cholesterol-high foods and improving your health.
Breakfast: List High Cholesterol Foods with Low Cholesterol Comparisons
FOOD | Portion | Cholesterol (approximate milligrams) |
Whole egg | 1 extra large | 245 |
Whole egg | 1 medium | 186 |
Egg white | 1 | 0 |
Ham | 2 slices | 32 |
Ham, extra lean | 2 slices | 27 |
Breakfast biscuit with egg and sausage | 1 | 302 |
English muffin, egg, cheese, canadian bacon | 1 | 234 |
Croissant, egg, cheese, bacon | 1 | 215 |
Fast food hash brown potato | 1/2 cup | 9 |
French toast, with butter | 2 slices | 116 |
French toast, frozen, no butter | 2 | 96 |
Pancake, from mix | 1 medium | 27 |
Danish pastry, fruit | 1 large | 81 |
Fast food Danish pastry, fruit | 1 small | 19 |
Corn muffin from mix | 1 medium | 31 |
Cake doughnut | 1 medium | 17 |
Croissant, with butter | 1 medium | 38 |
Egg bagel | 4" | 21 |
Toast | 1 slice | 0 |
Oatmeal | 1 cup | 0 |
Cereal, corn flakes | 1 cup | 0 |
Milk, whole | 1 cup | 24 |
Milk, nonfat | 1 cup | 5 |
Green Tea | 1 cup | 0 |
Butter | 1 level tablespoon | 31 |
FOOD | Portion | Cholesterol (approximate milligrams) |
Fast food hamburger. double patty | 1 | 122 |
Fast food cheeseburger, single patty | 1 | 88 |
Fast food taco | 1 large | 87 |
Fast food enchilada, cheese | 1 | 44 |
Fast food corndog | 1 | 79 |
Fast food chilidog | 1 | 51 |
Fast food submarine, roast beef | 6" | 73 |
Fast food submarine, tuna salad | 6" | 49 |
Fast food chicken pieces, breaded, fried, no sauce | 6 pieces | 58 |
Pizza, pepperoni | 1 small slice | 14 |
Fried onion rings | 8 | 14 |
Milkshake, chocolate | 2 cups | 43 |
Green Tea | 1 cup | 0 |
Cream of Chicken soup, with milk | 1 cup | 27 |
Chicken noodle soup | 1 cup | 19 |
Tomato soup, with milk | 1 cup | 17 |
Tomato soup, with water | 1 cup | 0 |
Fast food salad, cheese, egg, no dressing | 1-1/2 cups | 98 |
Fast food salad, chicken, no dressing | 1-1/2cups | 72 |
Mayonnaise | 1 level tablespoon | 5 |
Yogurt, plain, whole milk | 8 oz | 30 |
Yogurt, plain, low fat | 8 oz | 14 |
FOOD | Approx. Portion | Cholesterol Milligrams |
Beef, liver | 6 oz | 648 |
Beef, ground, 75% lean | 6 oz | 152 |
Beef, sirloin, lean only | 6 oz | 94 |
Chicken liver, cooked | 6 oz | 880 |
Chicken breast, with skin, batter-fried | 1/2 breast | 119 |
Chicken breast, no skin | 1/2 breast | 73 |
Chicken drumstick, no skin | 1 drumstick | 41 |
Turkey, giblets | 1 cup | 419 |
Turkey, neck | 1 neck | 185 |
Turkey, dark meat | 6 oz | 142 |
Turkey, light meat | 6 oz | 116 |
Turkey and gravy, frozen | 5 oz | 26 |
Fast food shrimp, breaded, fried | 6-8 shrimp | 200 |
Catfish, fried | 6 oz | 138 |
Salmon, baked | 6 oz | 135 |
Fish sticks, frozen | 1 stick | 18 |
Pasta with meatballs, canned | 1 cup | 20 |
Spaghetti with meat, frozen | 1 package | 17 |
Chow mein noodles | 1 cup | 0 |
Vegetables, all | 1 cup | 0 |
Grains, all | 1 cup | 0 |
Dinner roll | 1 | 0 |
Butter | 1 level tablespoon | 31 |
Margarine, soft, no trans fat | 1 level tablespoon | 0 |
Green Tea | 1 cup | 0 |
FOOD | Approx. Portion | Cholesterol Milligrams |
Fruit, all | 1 cup | 0 |
Pie, pecan | 1 piece | 106 |
Pie, lemon meringue | 1 piece | 67 |
Pie, coconut custard | 1 slice | 36 |
Pie, fruit | 1 slice | 0 |
Cake, spongecake | 1 slice | 107 |
Cake, chocolate, no frosting | 1 slice | 55 |
Cupcake, creme-filled, chocolate | 1 | 9 |
Ice cream, french vanilla | 1/2 cup | 78 |
Ice cream, chocolate | 1/2 cup | 22 |
Green Tea | 1 cup | 0 |
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This page last updated by Sharon Jones.
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