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Crab contains a meaningful amount of dietary cholesterol, but its low saturated fat and high protein content make the full nutrition picture more favorable than the cholesterol number alone suggests. The direct answer: yes, crab contains dietary cholesterol. However, is crab high in cholesterol is not the only question that matters. A plain 3-ounce serving of blue crab has about 95 milligrams of cholesterol in the FDA seafood reference table, yet it has about 1…