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Heavy Metal Index
Whole and halved brown cremini and white button mushrooms on a dark ceramic plate beside a burgundy cloth.

Heavy metals in Mushrooms

Evidence review in progress. This page reports published measurements and their limitations. Compare values only when the product form, measurement basis, and metal species match.

4 related source records are associated with this category. This is a coverage count, not a measure of scientific confidence. References identify works cited in the text.

Literature scope

The literature corpus for this product class is currently thin. Sources route here as ingest proceeds; once enough sources accumulate, the synthesis pass will populate the Literature Evidence Summary, Source Evidence Inventory, and downstream sections.

References

Works cited in this page’s text, in first-appearance order. This is not the full corpus for this page; it is only what the prose above draws on. The complete set of sources is listed under Sources below. Each title links to its source record.

  1. Major, Minor and Toxic Minerals and Anti-Nutrients Composition in Edible Mushrooms Collected from EthiopiaWoldegiorgis AZ, Abate D, Haki GD, and Ziegler GR · Journal of Food Processing & Technology · 2015 · doi.org/10.4172/2157-7110.1000430Peer-reviewed

Sources

Sources catalogued for this page. The last column says how each source is used here.

#CitationYearTypeUsed on this page for
1Falandysz et al. 2022. Total mercury and methylmercury (MeHg) in braised and crude Boletus edulis carpophores during various developmental stages, Environmental Science and Pollution Research2022Peer-reviewedPL tHg, MeHg occurrence in Boletus edulis carpophores grouped by developmental stage (button, young-white, large-white, large-yellow), analyzed as crude mushrooms and after braising. (n=4)
2Lalotra et al. 2016. Bioaccumulation of heavy metals in the sporocarps of some wild mushrooms, Current Research in Environmental & Applied Mycology2016Peer-reviewedIN Pb, Cd, Fe, Mn, Cu, Zn occurrence in Three wild macrofungi from forest areas in Jammu Province, India: Macrolepiota procera (edible), Amanita augusta (non-edible), and Boletus… (n=3)
3Mleczek et al. 2016. Importance of low substrate arsenic content in mushroom cultivation and safety of final food product, European Food Research and Technology2016Peer-reviewedPL tAs, iAs occurrence in Cultivated edible fungi (Agaricus bisporus, Pleurotus ostreatus, Pleurotus eryngii, Hericium erinaceus) grown experimentally on substrates amended separately with…
4Saba et al. 2016. Accumulation and distribution of mercury in fruiting bodies by fungus Suillus luteus foraged in Poland, Belarus and Sweden, Environmental Science and Pollution Research2016Peer-reviewedPL/BY/SE tHg occurrence in Suillus luteus fruiting bodies and underlying soil substratum from Central, Eastern, and Northern Europe, including Poland, Belarus, and…

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.

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b01ec52c32026-08-04major1 source added; narrative text revised
3a67e13072026-08-02minorNarrative text revised
91c7d55912026-08-02minorNarrative text revised
33273ad692026-08-02major1 source added; narrative text revised
90a2f9a382026-07-30major2 sections added and 1 removed; narrative text revised