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Cholesterol, from animal products only?

Can your choleseterol levels go up from eating any type of fat, or is it only from animial products?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    The only significant source of cholesterol intake is from animal products.

    Cholesterol is a lipid found in the cell membranes of all animal tissues, and it is transported in the blood plasma of all animals.

    Cholesterol is found in animal fats: all food containing animal fats contains cholesterol; food not containing animal fats either contains no cholesterol or negligible amounts. Major dietary sources of cholesterol include egg yolks, beef, poultry, and shrimp.

    Plants have trace amounts of cholesterol, so even a vegan diet, which includes no animal foods, has traces of cholesterol. However, the amounts are very small. For example, to ingest the amount of cholesterol in one egg yolk, one would need to drink about 9.6 litres (2.53 gallons) of pure peanut oil.

    Plant products (e.g. flax seed, peanut), also contain cholesterol-like compounds, phytosterols, which are suggested to help lower serum cholesterol.

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  • Your body makes cholesterol, but dietary cholesterol is almost exclusively from animal foods. However, saturated fat can also raise cholesterol levels. While sat fat is primarily in animal foods, there are plant foods that have it, especially hydrogenated oils.

  • 1 decade ago

    Eating too much saturated fat can raise your blood cholesterol, whether it's from a plant or animal source. It's much more common in animal products, but there are some plants that have it, like coconut oil and palm oil.

  • 1 decade ago

    Only animal flesh & animal by products... Also the human body makes it's own Cholesterol as we need it to be healthy.

  • 1 decade ago

    cholesterol is raised by animal fat or fat from animal products like milk , cheese and cream , anything full fat . olive oil is known to reduce cholesterol

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