How much cholesterol is in an egg?

100 g of Eggs, whole contains 411 mg of cholesterol, which is 137% of the Daily Value.

What this means for you

One large egg carries about 207 mg of cholesterol, nearly all of it in the yolk.

What that means for your heart is a question we are not going to answer with confidence here, because we hold no evidence card on dietary cholesterol and cardiovascular risk. Advice on this has changed more than once, expert bodies have not landed in the same place, and a number on a page is not a reason for us to pretend otherwise. If you have been told to watch your cholesterol intake, that instruction came with a context we do not have.

What we can say is what else arrives with those 207 mg. One egg carries about 168 mg of choline against an adequate intake of 550 mg for men and 425 mg for women, plus 6 g of protein, and it is one of the few concentrated sources of choline in the food supply.

Written from the evidence cards and the data on this page, then checked back against the sources. Bioma Learn has no human medical reviewer at this time and we say so rather than invent one. Information, not medical advice. How we verify.

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Data: USDA FoodData Central, FDC ID 748967. % Daily Value against FDA. Checked 2026-09-15.