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Heavy Metal Index

Ingredients

Directory

Commodity-level risk profiles for food ingredients relevant to heavy metal exposure.

Overview

Commodity-level pages describe why specific ingredients accumulate specific metals, typical concentration ranges by source and variety, processing effects, and mitigation options. Each page carries a structured contamination profile in frontmatter that the future consumer app will consume directly. Ingredient-level values belong on these pages; finished-product values belong on product-category pages.

Ingredients by category

Pages are grouped by commodity type and listed alphabetically within each group. The count after each entry is how many curated sources currently reference that ingredient — a low or zero count marks an evidence gap, not an error.

Jump to: Fruits (30) · Vegetables (43) · Grains, cereals & bakery (35) · Legumes & pulses (9) · Nuts & seeds (7) · Oils & fats (13) · Herbs, spices & botanicals (13) · Meat & poultry (16) · Fish & seafood (14) · Dairy & eggs (17) · Infant formula & baby foods (20) · Beverages & water (17) · Sweeteners & condiments (11) · Prepared & composite foods (12)

Fruits

Vegetables

Grains, cereals & bakery

Legumes & pulses

Nuts & seeds

Oils & fats

Herbs, spices & botanicals

Meat & poultry

Fish & seafood

Dairy & eggs

Infant formula & baby foods

Beverages & water

Sweeteners & condiments

Prepared & composite foods

Update history

The five most recent substantive edits to this page, classified major (evidence or structure moved), correction (a published value or statement was wrong and has been fixed), or minor (narrative rewritten without changing the underlying evidence). Each description is derived from what the edit did to this page; the linked commit is the authoritative record, routine regeneration passes are excluded, and the full version history lives in git. When DOI minting comes online (see schema docs), each entry below will also link to a version-pinned DataCite DOI.

CommitDateChangeDescription
b01ec52c32026-08-04major1 section added; narrative text revised
90a2f9a382026-07-30major1 section added
bff8abb722026-07-27correction1 section added; narrative text revised
19cec1a0a2026-07-03major2 sections added and 15 removed; narrative text revised
af9c97a502026-06-23minorNarrative text revised

Additional indexed pages

Auto-managed by tools/autonomy/link-orphans.mjs. These pages exist in this directory and are reachable from here, but have not yet been placed in a curated section above. A future structural pass relocates them into the appropriate section.

Update history

The five most recent substantive edits to this page, classified major (evidence or structure moved), correction (a published value or statement was wrong and has been fixed), or minor (narrative rewritten without changing the underlying evidence). Each description is derived from what the edit did to this page; the linked commit is the authoritative record, routine regeneration passes are excluded, and the full version history lives in git. When DOI minting comes online (see schema docs), each entry below will also link to a version-pinned DataCite DOI.

CommitDateChangeDescription
a773f762026-08-10correction1 section added; narrative text revised
a8052bb2026-08-09major17 sections added; narrative text revised