Dietary cholesterol
In the body: Health Canada’s dietary reference intakes set no daily amount for cholesterol from food, so it is listed here for context, without a rating.
Not rated by dose: a flag on 5 reviewed foods, among them Beef steak, top loin, raw, hard-boiled eggs and raw ground beef. The list below has a line for each of 8 preparations.
Background. Shown, not scored: no dose basis at normal intake, a classification rather than a risk, or legal limits only.
The reference value and where it comes from
- The agency’s figureno agency dose value
- Basislisted dietary cholesterol (context, no cap)
- On food pagesHealth Canada’s Table of Daily Values lists 300 mg, but labels give cholesterol no percent, so food pages show the amount for any serving with 60 mg or more, “shown, not rated”. The foods below are the ones the dataset flags; the food pages cover more.
- Source ?US food database (USDA SR Legacy)
Reviewed foods that carry it
5 reviewed foods carry it; none is rated by dose. A food counts once, as in the foods list: preparations sharing a page (raw and cooked, canned) count once; one with its own page counts apart. Below, one line for each of 8 preparations.
How often you can eat it ?
No food here is rated by dose. Each line says why it’s listed: a flag for the people the source names, advice on handling it, or context.
Flags and context, not rated by dose
Beef liver, pan-friedContext
381 mgper servingUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) · grade C ?
How it’s rated
Context, no cap. Chicken liver 563 mg/100 g.
Intake: 100 g serving · Level in the food: 381 mg/100 g (listed value, n = 4)
88 mgper servingUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) · grade C ?
How it’s rated
Context, no cap: no agency limit for dietary cholesterol is used. 88 mg cholesterol and 6.608 g saturated fat per 100 g (the food's own nutrient listing).
Intake: 100 g serving · Level in the food: 88 mg/100 g (listed value)
Beef steak, top loin, rawContext
US food database (USDA SR Legacy) · grade C ?
How it’s rated
Context, no cap: no agency limit for dietary cholesterol is used. 81 mg cholesterol and 6.251 g saturated fat per 100 g (the food's own nutrient listing).
Intake: no serving set for this preparation · Level in the food: 81 mg/100 g (listing) (listed value)
Measured on: USDA SR Legacy 169538 cholesterol, raw beef top loin steak
Chicken liver, simmeredContext
563 mgper servingUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) · grade C ?
How it’s rated
Context, no cap.
Intake: 100 g serving · Level in the food: 563 mg/100 g (listed value, n = 4)
Eggs, hard-boiledContext
US food database (USDA SR Legacy) · grade C ?
How it’s rated
Context only: no rating, no agency limit used
Intake: not applicable (flag) · Level in the food: 373 mg/100 g (listed value)
Measured on: context only
Eggs, rawContext
US food database (USDA Foundation Foods) · grade C ?
How it’s rated
Context only: no rating, no agency limit used
Intake: not applicable (flag) · Level in the food: 411 mg/100 g (listed value)
Measured on: context only
53.4 mgper servingUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) · grade C ?
How it’s rated
Context, no cap: no agency limit for dietary cholesterol is used. 89 mg cholesterol and 6.546 g saturated fat per 100 g (the food's own nutrient listing).
Intake: 60 g serving · Level in the food: 89 mg/100 g (listed value, n = 12)
Ground beef, 80% lean, rawContext
67.7 mgper servingUS food database (USDA Foundation Foods) · grade C ?
How it’s rated
Context, no cap: no agency limit for dietary cholesterol is used. 67.74 mg cholesterol and 6.845 g saturated fat per 100 g (the food's own nutrient listing).
Intake: 100 g serving · Level in the food: 67.74 mg/100 g (listed value, n = 8)
Sources
- USDA FoodData Central, Foundation Foods, release 2026-04-30
fdc-foundation-2026-04-30· dataset · CC0 1.0 (public domain) - USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy, 2018-04
fdc-sr-legacy-2018-04· dataset · CC0 1.0 (public domain)