Noodles
1 products.
Typical levels
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food around the US.
- Cadmium: typically 12.6 ppb (FDA, 9 samples, 2018-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 1.2 kg (2.6 lb) a day; an adult at about 5.6 kg (12 lb).One serving (100 g, a standard portion):8% of a toddler's daily limit2% of an adult's daily limit
- Lead, Mercury, Arsenic (total): usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Noodles, egg, enriched, boiled: found in 2 of 3 samples, average 3.63, highest 6.6 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Pasta, rice noodles, cooked: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Soup, ramen noodles, prepared with water: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Noodles, egg, enriched, boiled: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 22.3, highest 26 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Pasta, rice noodles, cooked: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 6.73, highest 11 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Soup, ramen noodles, prepared with water: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 8.37, highest 15 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Noodles, egg, enriched, boiled: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Pasta, rice noodles, cooked: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Soup, ramen noodles, prepared with water: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Noodles, egg, enriched, boiled: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Pasta, rice noodles, cooked: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 16.7, highest 22 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Soup, ramen noodles, prepared with water: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Perchlorate in Noodles, egg, enriched, boiled: found in 3 of 20 samples, average 0.45, highest 7 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Soup, Oriental noodles (ramen noodles), prepared w/ water: found in 3 of 20 samples, average 0.2, highest 2 ppb (2008-2012)
Left out of the summary above: Perchlorate. FDA measured it in only some of these foods, so the result describes those foods, not the whole kind.
"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.