Tomatoes
2,952 products.
Typical levels
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food around the US.
- Cadmium: typically 5.07 ppb (FDA, 30 samples, 2017-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 2.9 kg (6.4 lb) a day; an adult at about 14 kg (31 lb).One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):3% of a toddler's daily limitunder 1% of a adult's daily limit
- Perchlorate: typically 51.9 ppb (FDA, 20 samples, 2008-2012).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 180 g (6.3 oz) a day; an adult at about 850 g (30 oz).One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):● 55% of a toddler's daily limit12% of a adult's daily limit
- Lead, Mercury, Arsenic (total): usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Sauce, tomato, canned: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Tomato, raw: found in 0 of 27, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Sauce, tomato, canned: found in 3 of 3, average 20.7, highest 25 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Tomato, raw: found in 24 of 27, average 3.45, highest 7.6 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Sauce, tomato, canned: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Tomato, raw: found in 0 of 27, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Sauce, tomato, canned: found in 2 of 3, average 3.1, highest 5.7 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Tomato, raw: found in 0 of 27, all below 3 ppb (2017-2020)
- Perchlorate in Tomato, raw: found in 20 of 20, average 57.8, highest 178 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.
- Organic Tomatoes, Diced In Tomato Juice Trader Joe's · Tomatoes
- No Salt Added Tomato Sauce Harris Teeter · Tomatoes
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