Tomato
This ingredient stub was created during the FDA FY2018-FY2020 Total Diet Study element-results ingest so future source ingests have a stable destination for this food matrix. FDA reports this item as TDS Food 117, “Tomato, raw.” fda2022-tds-elements-fy2018-fy2020
Heavy metal contamination profile
Per-analyte snapshot derived from the machine-readable contamination_profile in the frontmatter above. data gap indicates the literature has been reviewed for this commodity-analyte combination and no usable occurrence data was found (a finding, not a placeholder). The Key sources column is populated by the per-metal body sections below where they exist; an automated Phase 3 enrichment will lift attributions into this table.
| Analyte | Coverage | Typical (ppb) | p95 (ppb) | Confidence | Key sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pb | n=1 (in progress) | — | — | — | — |
| Cd | n=1 (in progress) | — | — | — | — |
| iAs | data gap | — | — | — | — |
| tAs | n=1 (in progress) | — | — | — | — |
| tHg | n=1 (in progress) | — | — | — | — |
| Ni | n=1 (in progress) | — | — | — | — |
| Al | data gap | — | — | — | — |
| Cr | n=1 (in progress) | — | — | — | — |
| Sn | data gap | — | — | — | — |
| U | n=1 (in progress) | — | — | — | — |
FDA TDS FY2018-FY2020 Evidence
The normalized row-level data for this TDS food is stored in data/evidence/fda_tds_fy2018_2020_element_results_samples.csv, with per-food/per-analyte summaries in data/evidence/fda_tds_fy2018_2020_summary_by_food_analyte.csv. Concentrations are retained as FDA reported them, with the reporting-limit column preserved separately; reported zeroes are not rewritten as <LOD unless a source explicitly says to do so. fda2022-tds-elements-fy2018-fy2020
Routing
This node is linked from the ingredient index and the FDA TDS source routing table.
Contamination Profile State
The machine-readable contamination profile is in_progress for analytes measured in the TDS file and pending for profile metals not measured by this source. Ingredient-level values belong here once cross-source synthesis is reviewed; product-category values belong on the relevant product page.
FDA TDS FY2018-FY2020 Occurrence Values
FDA Total Diet Study FY2018-FY2020 reports prepared/composite-food concentration distributions for this ingredient as TDS food “Tomato, raw” (fda2022-tds-elements-fy2018-fy2020). Values are in ppb-equivalent on the basis FDA reported. The full sample-level data are stored in data/evidence/fda_tds_fy2018_2020_element_results_samples.csv; per-analyte distributions in data/evidence/fda_tds_fy2018_2020_summary_by_food_analyte.csv. These distributions count as one source under persistent-wiki-ingest-rule synthesis discipline; numerical values stay in body scratch until a second independent source is integrated.
| Metal | n | min | p10 | p50 | p90 | p95 | max | Schema |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cd | 27 | 0 | 0.6 | 3.3 | 6.68 | 7.22 | 7.6 | in profile |
| Cr | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | in profile |
| Ni | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | in profile |
| Pb | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | in profile |
| U | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | in profile |
| tAs | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | in profile |
| tHg | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | in profile |
Sources
Auto-generated from source-page frontmatter. The “Used on this page for” column is populated by the orchestrator’s POPULATE-SOURCE-LEGEND action; pending entries appear as *[awaiting synthesis]*.
| # | Citation | Year | Type | Used on this page for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rodríguez-Rodríguez et al. 2026. Trace Element Content in Tomato Fruit Grown with Sargassum-Based Biofertilizer, Agronomy | 2026 | Peer-reviewed | Measured tAs, Cd, Pb, Ni, and Cr in greenhouse tomatoes grown with Sargassum biofertilizer vs controls (Spain); all five metals below LOQ in tomato fruit from both treatment groups |
| 2 | Samma et al. 2024. Evaluating Soil-Vegetable Contamination with Heavy Metals in Bogura, Bangladesh: A Risk Assessment Approach, Environmental Health Insights | 2024 | Peer-reviewed | [awaiting synthesis] |
| 3 | FDA 2022. FY2018-FY2020 TDS Elements Analytical Results, FDA Total Diet Study | 2022 | Government dataset | Primary occurrence data for Pb, Cd, Ni, Cr, U, tAs, and tHg in tomato (TDS food item; n varies by analyte) |
| 4 | Ametepey et al. 2018. Determination of heavy metals in selected vegetables from markets in Tamale Metropolis, Ghana, International Journal of Food Contamination | 2018 | Peer-reviewed | Measured Cd, Pb, Cr, and Ni in tomato from three markets in Tamale, Ghana (n=75 total samples across 5 vegetables); provides West African occurrence context |