Why does nutritional information list "cholesterol", when it's as irrelevant as sugars (or worse, added sugars)? it's total carbs that matter, and whether added or not doesn't matter; the only thing which affects the body is that they are there, not how they got there. Body cholesterol comes from carbs, not from diet cholesterol.
The reason it's (cholesterol) listed is that it's included on the Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset along with several other nutritional data. The CoFID is the dataset that is used by food producers and packagers for the data on the backs of food packaging. I could have cut it (cholesterol) out (as I did with very much other data) from my post, but didn't, as I thought that it might have been of interest. But I do accept that "cholesterol" may not be of interest or value to some.
The listing, if it causes offence, is due to my editing and not due to CoFID whose research and publications are far from irrelevant in the field of dietary data and are as good as one will find.
My advice would be to just ignore any data that isn't completely relevant to your interest. The view I posted was just part of the one I set up for my interest and to change it would take more time than I care to spare.
You can easily download the CoFID data into Excel and then import into a searchable database that you can tailor to your own requirements.
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