Dietary Cholesterol 1 article

Dietary Cholesterol is the cholesterol naturally present in animal-derived foods such as eggs, meat, shellfish, and dairy products. Nutrition labels may report cholesterol per serving, but that number should not be confused with blood cholesterol or with total, saturated, or unsaturated fat; those are separate nutrition measures with different chemistry. It is a sterol rather than a triglyceride fatty acid, and plant foods are naturally free of cholesterol unless animal-derived ingredients are added.