Cholesterol is an essential sterol needed for proper functioning of human body. The body gets its required cholesterol from dietary sources or synthesises it indigenously. However, human body is capable of meeting its cholesterol requirements by synthesizing its own cholesterol. Therefore, there is no need to depend for cholesterol on diet, for healthy human beings. For this reason, there is no Adequate Intake (AI) or Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) set for cholesterol, for humans of any age.

Foods of animal origin are high in cholesterol. If one wants cholesterol free foods, however, a variety of foods of plant origin which are free of any cholesterol are easily available in the market. Additional benefits of plant-based diet is that it supplies phytosterols which can help lower serum total and LDL cholesterol.

In the following tables are lists of cholesterol free foods (zero cholesterol content).

Table 1: List of fruits and vegetables free of cholesterol.

Food items	Cholesterol content
Bambo shoots, canned, drained solids	0
Orange Juice	0
Broccoli, raw	0
Melons, honeydew, raw	0
Raisins, seedless	0
Alfalfa seeds, sprouted, raw	0
Rasberries, raw	0
Asparagus, cooked, boiled, drained	0
Watermelon, raw	0
Beans, snap, green, frozen, regular pack, drained solids	0
Apples	0
Blueberry	0
Banana	0
Avocados	0
Rice, white	0
Oat bran	0
Mashroom	0
Sweet potato	0
Spinach	0
Potato	0
Celery	0
Cauliflower	0
Cabbage	0
Tomato	0
Lettuce	0
Garlic	0
Cucumber	0
Squash	0
Onions	0
Pepper	0
Bread, rye	0
Bread, cracked-wheat	0
Dill weed, fresh	0
Cocoa mix, powder	0

 

Table 2: List of cholesterol free vegetable oils.

Oil types	Cholesterol Content
Oil, soybean, salad or cooking, (hydrogenated)	0.0
Oil, vegetable, rice bran	0.0
Oil, wheat germ	0.0
Oil, peanut, salad or cooking	0.0
Oil, soybean, salad or cooking	0.0
Oil, olive, salad or cooking	0.0
Oil, vegetable, palm	0.0
Oil, sesame, salad or cooking	0.0
Oil, vegetable, sunflower, linoleic (less than 60%)	0.0
Oil, vegetable, cocoa butter	0.0
Oil, vegetable, cottonseed, salad or cooking	0.0
Oil, vegetable, sunflower, linoleic, (approx. 65%)	0.0
Oil, vegetable safflower, salad or cooking, linoleic, (over 70%)	0.0
Oil, vegetable safflower, salad or cooking, oleic, over 70% (primary safflower oil of commerce)	0.0
Oil, vegetable, poppyseed	0.0
Oil, vegetable, tomatoseed	0.0
Oil, vegetable, teaseed	0.0
Oil, vegetable, grapeseed	0.0