It’s true: egg yolks do have relatively high cholesterol content.
But let’s crack open the biggest myth about them: that their cholesterol content is bad for your heart health.
While there’s a lot of cholesterol, more than half of it is good cholesterol (HDL), which lowers the bad cholesterol (LDL) in your blood. And research has shown that cholesterol consumed through your diet has minimal relationship to heart disease.
Plus, the antioxidants in quail eggs prevent their cholesterol from being a health risk. A 2018 study out of China even showed eggs to be associated with a lower risk of heart disease.
All this being said, anyone with high cholesterol levels should always be careful with their cholesterol intake, even when it comes to quail eggs.