Chewing Gum & Mints
1,668 products.
Typical levels
FDA doesn't test this exact kind of food; these are the closest foods it does test.
- Arsenic (total): typically 13 ppb (FDA, 3 samples, 2018-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
- Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, Perchlorate: usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Candy, hard: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Candy, hard: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Candy, hard: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Candy, hard: found in 3 of 3, average 13, highest 15 ppb (2018-2020)
- Perchlorate in Candy, hard, any flavor: found in 1 of 19, average 0.47, highest 9 ppb (2008-2012)
"Typically" is FDA's middle sample. Daily amounts use the long-run average and each chemical's daily limit (EPA reference dose, or FDA's level for lead) for a 33-lb toddler and a 154-lb adult. ppb = micrograms per kilogram of food. Source: FDA Total Diet Study.
Products
None of these has published lab results yet.
- Bubble Gum Bubble Yum · Chewing Gum & Mints · 1 additive banned somewhere
- Peppermint White Sugar Ree Gum, Peppermint Trident · Chewing Gum & Mints · 1 additive banned somewhere
- Peppermint White Sugarfree Gum, Peppermint Orbit · Chewing Gum & Mints · 1 additive banned somewhere
- Spearmint White Sugarfree Gum, Spearmint Orbit · Chewing Gum & Mints · 1 additive banned somewhere
- Winterfrost Sugarfree Gum, Winterfrost Eclipse · Chewing Gum & Mints
- Spearmint Sugarfree Gum, Spearmint Eclipse · Chewing Gum & Mints
- Sweet Mint Sugarfree Gum, Sweet Mint Orbit · Chewing Gum & Mints · 1 additive banned somewhere
- Spearmint Sugarfree Gum, Spearmint Orbit · Chewing Gum & Mints · 1 additive banned somewhere