Grains/Flour
170 products.
Typical levels
FDA doesn't test this exact kind of food; these are the closest foods it does test.
- Cadmium: typically 10.9 ppb (FDA, 33 samples, 2017-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 1.3 kg (2.9 lb) a day; an adult at about 6.1 kg (13 lb).One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):8% of a toddler's daily limit2% of a adult's daily limit
- Arsenic (total): typically 52.7 ppb (FDA, 33 samples, 2017-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
- Lead, Mercury: usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Flour, white, all-purpose: found in 1 of 3, average 1.63, highest 4.9 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Quinoa, cooked: found in 1 of 3, average 3.67, highest 11 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Rice, brown, cooked: found in 0 of 27, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Flour, white, all-purpose: found in 3 of 3, average 42.3, highest 45 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Quinoa, cooked: found in 3 of 3, average 11.2, highest 19 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Rice, brown, cooked: found in 27 of 27, average 7.98, highest 17 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Flour, white, all-purpose: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Quinoa, cooked: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Rice, brown, cooked: found in 8 of 27, average 0.36, highest 1.5 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Flour, white, all-purpose: found in 3 of 3, average 3.53, highest 3.6 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Quinoa, cooked: found in 1 of 3, average 3.33, highest 10 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Rice, brown, cooked: found in 27 of 27, average 64.3, highest 88 ppb (2017-2020)
"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.
- Martha White 5 Pound All Purpose Flour Each Martha White · Grains/Flour
- Martha White 5 Pound Self Rising Flour Each Martha White · Grains/Flour
- Martha White 5 Pound Yellow Corn Meal Self Rising Each Martha White · Grains/Flour
- Gold Medal All-Purpose Flour Gold Medal · Grains/Flour
- Gold Medal Unbleached Bread Flour Gold Medal · Grains/Flour
- Gold Medal All Purpose Flour Gold Medal · Grains/Flour · 1 recall
- Gold Medal Unbleached Bread Flour Gold Medal · Grains/Flour
- Gold Medal All-Purpose Flour Gold Medal · Grains/Flour · 1 recall