Is Smoked Sausage high in cholesterol?

Chef's answer
Processed meats, such as sausages, bacon and hot dogs, are high-cholesterol foods that should be limited.
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Processed meats are meats that have been preserved by smoking or salting, curing or adding chemical preservatives. They include deli meats, bacon and hot dogs. Eating processed meats increases your cancer risk. Unfortunately, when these processed meats are preserved, cancer-causing substances form..
Cured meats are also susceptible to Clostridium botulinum contamination. Botulism, the disease caused by infection with C. botulinum toxins, was originally named "sausage poisoning," or "Wurstvergiftung," when discovered in Germany, because the bacteria grow in oxygen-deprived environments such as sausage casings.
4. Processed Lunch Meat. Lunch meats, including deli cold cuts, bologna, and ham, make the unhealthy list because they contain lots of sodium and sometimes fat as well as some preservatives like nitrites..
Food products categorized as processed meat include:
  • Sausages, hot dogs, salami.
  • Ham, cured bacon.
  • Salted and cured meat, corned beef.
  • Smoked meat.
  • Dried meat, beef jerky.
  • Canned meat.
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Many meat processors believe that all deli meat should be labeled "cured," no matter which curing process is used, according to NAMI. " 'Uncured' and 'natural nitrates/nitrites' makes people think these meats are healthier, but they aren't," says CR's Vallaeys.
Beef is in most cases safe to eat raw, as long as you sear the surface of the meat. This is because, on whole cuts of beef, bacterial contamination (such as E. coli) is usually only present on the outside.
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