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Selenium: Benefits, Toxicity and Food Sources of Selenium

Last Updated on 05 April 2012

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Table 2: List of foods high in selenium content.

Selenium food sources	Selenium content (µg/ 100 g food)
Mollusks, oyster, eastern, wild, raw	63.69
Fish, swordfish, cooked, dry heat	61.70
Fish, swordfish, cooked, dry heat	61.65
Chicken, broilers or fryers, giblets, cooked, simmered	59.59
Fish, herring, Atlantic, pickled	58.55
Fish, flatfish (flounder and sole species), cooked, dry heat	58.24
Fish, flatfish (flounder and sole species), cooked, dry heat	58.19
Braunschweiger (a liver sausage), pork	58.02
Turkey, all classes, giblets, cooked, simmered, some giblet fat	57.93
Fish, ocean perch, Atlantic, cooked, dry heat	55.53
Fish, sardine, Atlantic, canned in oil, drained solids with bone	52.67
Pork, fresh, leg (ham), whole, separable lean only, cooked, roasted	49.88
Bread stuffing, bread, dry mix, prepared	49.80
Mollusks, clam, mixed species, canned, drained solids	48.59
Fast foods, fish sandwich, with tartar sauce and cheese	48.42
Crustaceans, shrimp, mixed species, canned	47.50
Fish, tuna, yellowfin, fresh, cooked, dry heat	46.82
Fish, cod, Pacific, cooked, dry heat	46.82
Fish, halibut, Atlantic and Pacific, cooked, dry heat	46.82
Fish, rockfish, Pacific, mixed species, cooked, dry heat	46.82
Fish, halibut, Atlantic and Pacific, cooked, dry heat	46.79
Fish, rockfish, Pacific, mixed species, cooked, dry heat	46.78
Waffles, plain, prepared from recipe	46.27
Pork, fresh, leg (ham), whole, separable lean and fat, cooked, roasted	45.29
Oat bran, raw	45.21
Pork, fresh, loin, center loin (chops), bone-in, separable lean and fat, cooked, broiled	44.35

Selenium: Benefits, Toxicity and Food Sources of Selenium