Is ricotta cheese bad cholesterol rich?

QUESTION: Ricotta cheese is one we use it often in my house. One of my friends told me that it is rich in bad cholesterol. Is it true?


ANSWER: Hi,

it is true that Ricotta cheese has a lot of cholesterol in it, about 246 g per kilogram of cheese.

Important for you to know is that you can not define the cholesterol contained in this cheese, or in any other particular food as a bad, because the bad cholesterol is produced in the organism in a response of increased amount of consumed foods high in cholesterol and fat acids.

With regards to this particular food, it definitely leads to the production of bad cholesterol in our body.

If you consume more cholesterol with other foods, then, that will lead more and more to an elevation of the cholesterol, more than you normally consume.

For that reason, you can eat ricotta cheese but you have to limit other foods, which contain more cholesterol in purpose to reach the normal level of cholesterol consumed daily.

In that way you can live normally without developing atherosclerosis and cardiovascular diseases provoked by it.

Everything is a matter of diet and you have to follow the right one if you want to eat ricotta cheese, because this food leads to an elevated risk of cardiovascular diseases.

My advice is to run your blood tests regularly in purpose to see how your organism is reacting to the increased amount of cholesterol and fat acids in foods.

All the best!

Dr.Alba