Jam, Jelly & Fruit Spreads · barcode 00000004181937

Concord Grape Jelly, Concord Grape

Welch's · Welch Foods Inc

Typical for jam, jelly & fruit spreads

What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.

• Arsenic (total): typically 9.9 ppb (FDA, 3 samples, 2018-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
• Perchlorate: typically 2 ppb (FDA, 19 samples, 2008-2012). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 4.9 kg (11 lb) a day; an adult at about 23 kg (51 lb).
  One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):

  2% of a toddler's daily limit

  under 1% of a adult's daily limit
• Lead, Cadmium, Mercury: usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.

FDA samples behind these numbers

• Lead in Jelly, grape: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
• Cadmium in Jelly, grape: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
• Mercury in Jelly, grape: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
• Arsenic (total) in Jelly, grape: found in 3 of 3, average 13, highest 20 ppb (2018-2020)
• Perchlorate in Jelly, any flavor: found in 12 of 19, average 2.16, highest 6.3 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.

Not tested

No published results for this product cover: Metals, Perchlorate, Phthalates (plastic softeners), Phthalate substitutes, Bisphenols. That means nobody has published a test, not that these are absent.

Ingredients (from the label)

CONCORD GRAPES, CORN SYRUP, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, FRUIT PECTIN, CITRIC ACID, SODIUM CITRATE

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-10-28. Labels change; check the package.

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