I think many are, peas and beans, for example. What about peanuts? Pretty darn oily, those puppies....

Cholesterol is a meat fat. It is not present in any plants. Plants may have saturated fat or polyunsaturated fat.

This post was edited by susanzone5 on Fri, Oct 25, 13 at 10:59

Before you buy much into the cholesterol myth, google "mortality versus cholesterol". You will find pages that link or reproduce published papers (some 20+ years old). Cholesterol is a necessary nutrient, and like other nutrients, it follows an U-curve: too little is bad, too much is also bad. But the sweet spot is at levels where doctors order statins unless you confront them.

Another point about cholesterol is that it is produce by liver. Even if one eats zero cholesterol diet, still will have cholesterol in his system. That is why some people have to take pills to combat it even with zero cholesterol diet.
And also there are two kinds: Good and bad. It is ok if the ratio of goo to bad is high. Again certain amount of it is vital.

So one does not have to eat animal-based food to have it, then.

That is correct, , pnbrown. . As far as I know. Liver manufactures cholesterol.

Technically, plants do produce cholesterol...but practically, it's a rather insignificant amount when it comes to human consumption and humans can't uptake them efficiently.

Long story short...technically, yes...realistically to human consumption and intake, too insignificant to even count it as a source.

Plant cholesterol is rather ignorable compared to the good they do, especially the role of some other plant compounds in blocking uptake or otherwise helping the body pass other "bad" cholesterol from meat sources. Just a fyi...

Yes, cholesterol from the liver is 90-95% of the total. The rest is from food.