Is the cholesterol in oysters bad?

QUESTION: My friend told me that oysters are high in cholesterol? Is it bad or good cholesterol?


ANSWER: Hi,

According to the last studies, oysters are classified as very healthful food. The explanation of this is kept in the amount of minerals, vitamins and the low amount of cholesterol and fatty acids in their meat.

When you have low amount of fats and cholesterol in some food, this food is good for you, because it does not stimulate the production of “bad” cholesterol.

However, you have to know that you might eat high amounts of fats or/and cholesterol when you have oyster meals. This is especially true when you bake the oysters with extra oil for example.

Therefore, the best way to cook oysters is to boil them in salt water; but be careful of extra salt too.

The other good fact in meals made with oysters is the great amount of vitamins in them, especially vitamins of group B, C and E, which are considered as antioxidants.

That means that they are cleaning up your organism from bad ions and molecules, which can damage you. In purpose to preserve the amount of vitamins in oyster you have to cook them in a specific way.

Below you will find a special recipe to prepare a healthy oyster meal, which is low in cholesterol and with all the vitamins.

First, you must clean the oysters and to make some lemon juice from freshly squeezed lemons.

Then, you can boil them for one hour on light fire in purpose to kill all of the eventual bacteria.

While the oysters are boiling, you can prepare some sauce, for example tomato sauce, made of tomato juice, boiled at slight fire for 30 minutes a little bit of vegetable oil and some onion if you like.

You may add some other ingredients to adjust the flavor you like.

Buon appetite! Enjoy your healthy oysters!

Dr.Alba