Foods high in Selenium, Se

Every food and ingredient below is ranked by measured Selenium, Se content per 100 g, drawn live from 1,868 USDA FoodData Central measurements. Values are laboratory-analysed or survey-derived, not estimated.

Top 25 foods highest in Selenium, Se

Ranked by Selenium, Se per 100g, across Foundation Foods and FNDDS ingredients.

#	Food or ingredient	Source	Per 100g (UG)
1	Nuts, brazilnuts, dried, unblanched	FNDDS ingredient	1,917
2	Nuts, brazilnuts, raw	Foundation Food	280
3	Spices, mustard seed, ground	FNDDS ingredient	208
4	Beef, variety meats and by-products, kidneys, cooked, simmered	FNDDS ingredient	168
5	Egg, whole, dried	FNDDS ingredient	165
6	Fish, cod, Atlantic, dried and salted	FNDDS ingredient	148
7	Flaxseed, ground	Foundation Food	136
8	Fish, tuna, fresh, yellowfin, raw	FNDDS ingredient	90.6
9	Beverages, nutritional shake mix, high protein, powder	FNDDS ingredient	87.5
10	Chicken, liver, all classes, cooked, simmered	FNDDS ingredient	82.4
11	Seeds, sunflower seed kernels, dry roasted, with salt added	Foundation Food	80.4
12	Seeds, sunflower seed kernels, dry roasted, without salt	FNDDS ingredient	79.3
13	Noodles, egg, dry, enriched	FNDDS ingredient	78.8
14	Wheat bran, crude	FNDDS ingredient	77.6
15	Tuna, ahi or yellowfin, frozen, wild caught	Foundation Food	76.5
16	Fish, tuna, light, canned in oil, drained solids	FNDDS ingredient	76
17	Crustaceans, lobster, northern, cooked, moist heat	FNDDS ingredient	73.1
18	Snapper, frozen, wild caught	Foundation Food	71.4
19	Cereals, whole wheat hot natural cereal, dry	FNDDS ingredient	70.7
20	Sea bass, Chilean, frozen, wild caught	Foundation Food	69.4
21	Fish, anchovy, european, canned in oil, drained solids	FNDDS ingredient	68.1
22	Fish, tuna, light, canned in water, drained solids	FNDDS ingredient	67.8
23	Beverages, UNILEVER, SLIMFAST Shake Mix, high protein, whey powder, 3-2-1 Plan,	FNDDS ingredient	67.5
24	Beverages, UNILEVER, SLIMFAST Shake Mix, powder, 3-2-1 Plan	FNDDS ingredient	67.3
25	Fish, caviar, black and red, granular	FNDDS ingredient	65.5

Lowest in Selenium, Se

For contrast — the 10 lowest non-zero values on record, per 100g.

#	Food or ingredient	Source	Per 100g (UG)
1859	Apricots, raw	FNDDS ingredient	0.1
1860	Pears, raw	FNDDS ingredient	0.1
1861	Lime juice, canned or bottled, unsweetened	FNDDS ingredient	0.1
1862	Passion-fruit juice, purple, raw	FNDDS ingredient	0.1
1863	Lime juice, raw	FNDDS ingredient	0.1
1864	Apricots, canned, water pack, with skin, solids and liquids	FNDDS ingredient	0.1
1865	Babyfood, vegetables, beets, strained	FNDDS ingredient	0.1
1866	Apple juice, canned or bottled, unsweetened, without added ascorbic acid	FNDDS ingredient	0.1
1867	Grapefruit juice, white, canned or bottled, unsweetened	FNDDS ingredient	0.1
1868	Grapes, red or green (European type, such as Thompson seedless), raw	FNDDS ingredient	0.1

More on Selenium, Se

What Selenium, Se is, how it is measured, and where these values come from.

Selenium, Se nutrient reference →

Sourced from USDA FoodData Central — Foundation Foods; not yet through an editorial verification pass.

USDA release 2026-04-30. All values are per 100 g unless stated otherwise.