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Article: On Nutrition: Is extra-lean ground beef a waste of money?
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- December 30, 2008
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DEAR DR. BLONZ: Does extra-lean ground beef have less cholesterol
than lean or regular ground beef? There was an animated discussion
at a restaurant the other night where it was put forth that the
cholesterol is in the muscle cells (meat), not the fat, and this
would mean that the uncooked extra lean has the most cholesterol.
The discussion then proceeded to cover whether, after cooking the
meat and letting the fat drip out, similar servings of regular beef
would end up just as healthy as the lean one and that spending the
money for the extra-lean was a waste. -- M.E., Detroit, Mich.
DEAR M.E.: A few things come into play to arrive at our answer.
First is that cholesterol is present ...