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High cholesterol patients ‘need to be more careful' how often they eat a certain seafood

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high cholesterol should be careful not to have over 300 milligrams of cholesterol a day. This recommended amount is even lower (200mg) for people with Familial hypercholesterolemia.

One sea food that has notoriously high levels of cholesterol is prawns. Only 140g of raw prawns is said to contain roughly 210 milligrams of cholesterol.

Heart UK emphasises that "you can still eat some of these foods". But the health body states "you need to be more careful about how often you eat them to ensure you're keeping within the guidelines".

For prawns, they suggest that you "could" eat them up to once or twice a week to make sure you stay below-suggested cholesterol levels.

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