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title: "Cholesterol-Busting Recipes: Tuna & Mixed Bean Salad"
description: This tuna and mixed bean salad is ready in just a few minutes and will do wonders for your cholesterol levels.
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### By Andy Politi

# Cholesterol-Busting Recipes: Tuna & Mixed Bean Salad

We all know salad is good for us. However, if you're after something a bit more exciting than a few lettuce leaves, this tuna and mixed bean salad is ready in just a few minutes and will do wonders for your cholesterol levels.

## Ingredients (serves 4)

- 2 cans of tuna (in spring water, not oil)
- 1 pack of cherry tomatoes
- 2 onions
- 2 cans of mixed beans
- 1 avocado
- 2 tbsp balsamic vinegar
- 2 tbsp olive oil

## How to make it

1. Drain the tuna and flake the fish with a fork.
2. Slice the tomatoes, onions and avocado.
3. Drain the beans.
4. Mix every together thoroughly and separate into four bowls.
5. Drizzle with olive oil and balsamic vinegar and serve.

## How does it improve your cholesterol?

There's a reason we're always being told to eat two portions of fish a week. Fish like **tuna** are really good for your heart. They remove [LDL ('bad') cholesterol](https://www.pushdoctor.co.uk/what-we-treat/heart-and-lung/high-cholesterol/diagnosis), lower blood pressure and reduce the amount of plaque clinging to your artery walls.

**Onions** and **beans** are both high in potassium and anthocyanins, both of which are linked with a reduced risk of heart disease and low blood pressure. **Tomatoes** have been shown to lower the risk of heart attacks and strokes in middle-aged men, suggesting that they help keep cholesterol under control.

Those dressings weren't an afterthought, either. **Balsamic vinegar** protects you against a condition called atherosclerosis, where your arteries harden as a result of too much LDL cholesterol. **Olive oil** is famously good for your heart and is used in many of the world's healthiest diets, most notably in the Mediterranean.

## Find more recipes to lower your cholesterol

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