This tiny black seed can safely improve your cholesterol.
Black cumin (Nigella sativa), also known simply as black seed, can safely improve your cholesterol according to this just published study.
Black seed is a powerful herb with a multitude of uses. This new double-blind study set out to confirm its benefits for cholesterol. It gave either no treatment or 5g of black seed powder a day for 8 weeks to people with borderline and high cholesterol who were not being treated with medication.
The black seed was able to significantly lower total cholesterol, the heart harmful LDL cholesterol and triglycerides while significantly increasing the heart healthy HDL cholesterol: everything you would want a cholesterol treatment to do. Actually, there’s one more thing you would want it to do: you would want it to do all this safely. The black seed did that too. There were no adverse effects.
This study adds black seed to the list of herbs that can safely improve cholesterol.
Food Science & Nutrition. September 2025;13(9):e70888.