Chickpeas
1 products.
Typical levels
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food around the US.
- Cadmium: typically 1.3 ppb (FDA, 1 samples, 2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 12 kg (26 lb) a day; an adult at about 54 kg (120 lb).One serving (100 g, a standard portion):under 1% of a toddler's daily limitunder 1% of an adult's daily limit
- Arsenic (total): typically 4.9 ppb (FDA, 1 samples, 2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
- Lead, Mercury: usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Beans, garbanzo (chickpeas), canned, drained solids: found in 0 of 1 sample, all below 4 ppb (2020)
- Cadmium in Beans, garbanzo (chickpeas), canned, drained solids: found in 1 of 1 sample, average 1.3, highest 1.3 ppb (2020)
- Mercury in Beans, garbanzo (chickpeas), canned, drained solids: found in 0 of 1 sample, all below 1 ppb (2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Beans, garbanzo (chickpeas), canned, drained solids: found in 1 of 1 sample, average 4.9, highest 4.9 ppb (2020)
"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.