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  2. List of cholesterol in foods - Wikipedia

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    High cholesterol foods Cholesterol mg per 100 grams Beef brain: 3100 Egg yolk: 1085 Caviar: 588 Fish oil, menhaden: 521 Foie Gras: 515 Roe: 479 Egg: 373 Lamb kidney: 337 Pork liver: 301 Clarified butter; Ghee: 256 Butter: 215 Oyster: 206 Lobster: 200 Pate: 150 Heavy whipping cream: 137 Crab meat (Alaskan King) 127 Shrimp: 125 Light whipping ...

  3. Dietary Reference Intake - Wikipedia

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    The Dietary Reference Intake (DRI) is a system of nutrition recommendations from the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) [a] of the National Academies (United States). [1] It was introduced in 1997 in order to broaden the existing guidelines known as Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs, see below).

  4. Liver (food) - Wikipedia

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    A single serving of beef liver exceeds the tolerable upper intake level of vitamin A. [4] 100 g cod liver contains 5 mg of vitamin A and 100 μg of vitamin D. [5] Liver contains large amounts of vitamin B 12, and this was one of the factors that led to the discovery of the vitamin. [6]

  5. Cholesterol - Wikipedia

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    Cholesterol is the principal sterol of all higher animals, distributed in body tissues, especially the brain and spinal cord, and in animal fats and oils. [3] [4]Cholesterol is biosynthesized by all animal cells [citation needed] and is an essential structural and signaling component of animal cell membranes.

  6. Nutrition facts label - Wikipedia

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    A sample nutrition facts label, with instructions from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration [1] Nutrition facts placement for two Indonesian cartons of milk The nutrition facts label (also known as the nutrition information panel, and other slight variations [which?]) is a label required on most packaged food in many countries, showing what nutrients and other ingredients (to limit and get ...

  7. Blood lipids - Wikipedia

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    In the liver, chylomicron particles release triglycerides and some cholesterol. The liver converts unburned food metabolites into very low density lipoproteins (VLDL) and secretes them into plasma where they are converted to intermediate-density lipoproteins(IDL), which thereafter are converted to low-density lipoprotein (LDL) particles and non ...

  8. Very low-density lipoprotein - Wikipedia

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    Very-low-density lipoprotein (VLDL), density relative to extracellular water, is a type of lipoprotein made by the liver. [1] VLDL is one of the five major groups of lipoproteins (chylomicrons, VLDL, intermediate-density lipoprotein, low-density lipoprotein, high-density lipoprotein) that enable fats and cholesterol to move within the water-based solution of the bloodstream.

  9. Stearic acid - Wikipedia

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    Stearic acid is more abundant in animal fat (up to 33% in beef liver [15]: 739 ) than in vegetable fat (typically less than 5%). [12] The important exceptions are the foods cocoa butter (34%) and shea butter , where the stearic acid content (as a triglyceride ) is 28–45%.