Vegetables
3 products.
Typical levels
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food around the US.
- Cadmium: typically 14.6 ppb (FDA, 108 samples, 2017-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 760 g (27 oz) a day; an adult at about 3.6 kg (7.9 lb).One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):13% of a toddler's daily limit3% of a adult's daily limit
- Perchlorate: typically 15.3 ppb (FDA, 80 samples, 2008-2012).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 460 g (16 oz) a day; an adult at about 2.2 kg (4.9 lb).One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):22% of a toddler's daily limit5% 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 Broccoli, fresh/frozen, boiled: found in 0 of 27, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Carrot, baby, raw: found in 0 of 27, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Lettuce, iceberg, raw: found in 0 of 27, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Tomato, raw: found in 0 of 27, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Broccoli, fresh/frozen, boiled: found in 27 of 27, average 16.5, highest 84 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Carrot, baby, raw: found in 27 of 27, average 24.8, highest 83 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Lettuce, iceberg, raw: found in 27 of 27, average 34.2, highest 73 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Tomato, raw: found in 24 of 27, average 3.45, highest 7.6 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Broccoli, fresh/frozen, boiled: found in 0 of 27, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Carrot, baby, raw: found in 0 of 27, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Lettuce, iceberg, raw: found in 0 of 27, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Tomato, raw: found in 0 of 27, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Broccoli, fresh/frozen, boiled: found in 0 of 27, all below 3 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Carrot, baby, raw: found in 24 of 27, average 4.99, highest 10 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Lettuce, iceberg, raw: found in 0 of 27, all below 3 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Tomato, raw: found in 0 of 27, all below 3 ppb (2017-2020)
- Perchlorate in Broccoli, fresh/frozen, boiled: found in 14 of 20, average 10.7, highest 102 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Carrot, baby, raw: found in 18 of 20, average 6.68, highest 40 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Lettuce, iceberg, raw: found in 14 of 20, average 15.3, highest 265 ppb (2008-2012)
- 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.
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