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[blondeangel7782]

Ok ladies day# 6 down 7lbs and don't want to welcome them back! Can I steam some shrimp with a bit of lemon juice,light butter & old bay for my lean & green?

Thanks

[Pashta]

No butter... but you can use butter extract, butter buds, Molly McButter or the I Can't Believe It's Not Butter spray, a lot of people seem to like that. What's Old Bay?

[falisamarie]

Old Bay is a wonderful seasoning for seafood and is delish! I have even heard of some that use it on their chicken

You can have steamed shrimp with Old Bay and like Pashta said use the ICBINB spray in place of lite butter and also be sure to use lemon juice in moderation as it does contain some carbs

Shrimp is one of my favorite lean and green meals!

Lisa

[ascicles]

While we're on the subject of shrimp, I noticed that it is really high in cholesterol and sodium (at least the frozen kind). Is there a certain kind that I should be looking for?

[Pashta]

High in cholesterol? How can that be? Shrimp has like only 1g of fat per serving, isn't cholesterol in the fat? It's extremely low calorie as well. Very healthy stuff.

[sidrah]

Shrimp and Dietary Cholesterol from Food Market Exchange

Cholesterol from food has a negative impact only if it is absorbed, and saturated fat seems to assist absorption. Eating food with a highly saturated fat content raises LDL cholesterol. Most high-cholesterol foods (such as meat, eggs, and dairy products) are also high in saturated fat, and increase LDL.

Shrimp have a high level of cholesterol, but have essentially no saturated fat (slightly over I gram per serving, compared to beef, which can have 10 to 20 grams). And shrimp's cholesterol is harder to absorb than that from other high-fat foods, although the reasons are not known.

In the past, scientists could not differentiate the different sterols and measured them all as "cholesterol". This is why the amount of cholesterol in shrimp and other shellfish reported is very high.

We now know that the amount of cholesterol in shrimp is approximately 130 mg per 3 oz of raw shrimp, or about 12 large shrimp, and with only 2 grams of fat. The amount of cholesterol in a comparable portion of regular ground beef is about 110 mg, with approximately 20 grams of fat. And shrimp have high levels of beneficial highly unsaturated fatty acids, which raise HDL cholesterol levels, so eating shrimp may actually lower blood cholesterol levels.

[Arklahoma]

Way to come back with an answer, Sidrah!

[Loribug]

simplified: shrimp have alot of the good kind of cholesterol