Is crab high in good or bad cholesterol?

If you like foods such as oysters, clams, shrimp, crabs, and mussels, you'll be happy to know they can be part of a healthy cholesterol-lowering diet. Not only do shellfish have a low fat content (0.5 percent to 2.5 percent), but about half of that fat is in the form of beneficial omega-3 oils. read more

According to the Swedish Medical Center, one Alaskan king crab leg has 72 mg of cholesterol. One Dungeness crab has 96 mg of cholesterol per crab. By comparison, one large egg contains about 213 mg of cholesterol. read more

The terms “good cholesterol” and “bad cholesterol” do not apply to food. They are actually misnomers coined by the media, referring to levels of High Density Lipoproteins (HDL) and Low Density Lipoproteins (LDL) in the human bloodstream. read more

Answer. Hi Marlene, Dietary cholesterol (cholesterol found in foods) is not broken down into good and bad categories. After you ingest cholesterol, the liver puts it into packages - HDL and LDL. This is where you get the good and bad cholesterol labels. read more