If you tend to steer clear from shellfish, shrimp and lobster because you’ve heard that they have high cholesterol levels, you are right and wrong at the same time. There really are high levels of dietary cholesterol in shrimp – 3 ounces of steamed shrimp contain 166 mg of cholesterol. However, saturated fat levels in shrimp are very low, and these are the fats mostly responsible for raising levels of blood cholesterol. Read more