Confectionery
83 products.
Typical levels
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food around the US.
- Cadmium: typically 9 ppb (FDA, 12 samples, 2018-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 1.7 kg (3.7 lb) a day; an adult at about 7.8 kg (17 lb).One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):6% of a toddler's daily limit1% of a adult's daily limit
- Arsenic (total): typically 4.8 ppb (FDA, 12 samples, 2018-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
- Perchlorate: typically 4.05 ppb (FDA, 59 samples, 2008-2012).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 2.6 kg (5.7 lb) a day; an adult at about 12 kg (26 lb).One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):4% of a toddler's daily limitunder 1% of a adult's daily limit
- Lead, Mercury: usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Candies, fruit snacks: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Candy bar, chocolate, nougat, with nuts: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Candy bar, milk chocolate, plain: found in 3 of 3, average 7.93, highest 8.3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Candy, hard: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Candies, fruit snacks: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Candy bar, chocolate, nougat, with nuts: found in 3 of 3, average 15.7, highest 17 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Candy bar, milk chocolate, plain: found in 3 of 3, average 20, highest 26 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Candy, hard: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Candies, fruit snacks: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Candy bar, chocolate, nougat, with nuts: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Candy bar, milk chocolate, plain: found in 1 of 3, average 0.57, highest 1.7 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Candy, hard: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Candies, fruit snacks: found in 0 of 3, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Candy bar, chocolate, nougat, with nuts: found in 2 of 3, average 3.63, highest 7.8 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Candy bar, milk chocolate, plain: found in 2 of 3, average 2.13, highest 3.3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Candy, hard: found in 3 of 3, average 13, highest 15 ppb (2018-2020)
- Perchlorate in Candy bar, chocolate, nougat, and nuts: found in 15 of 20, average 2.52, highest 9 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Candy bar, milk chocolate, plain: found in 19 of 20, average 8.92, highest 15 ppb (2008-2012)
- 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.
- Smint White 30 Sugarfree Mints Peppermint Flavour 21g Smint · Confectionery · 1 additive banned somewhere
- Smint White 30 Sugarfree Mints Spearmint Flavour 21g Smint · Confectionery · 1 additive banned somewhere
- Wrigley's 5 Watermelon Burst 12 Pieces 32g Wrigley's · Confectionery
- Chupa Chups Lollipops 300g Chupa Chups · Confectionery
- Chupa Chups Lollipops 1.2kg Chupa Chups · Confectionery
- Fruit-tella Hippos 120g Fruit-tella · Confectionery
- Fruit-tella Sour Wrigglers 120g Fruit-tella · Confectionery
- Cadbury Magical Elves Popping Candy 144g Cadbury · Confectionery