Snack Foods - Cereal Snacks
8 products.
Typical levels
FDA doesn't test this exact kind of food; these are the closest foods it does test.
- Cadmium: typically 12.1 ppb (FDA, 9 samples, 2018-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 970 g (34 oz) a day; an adult at about 4.5 kg (9.9 lb).One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):10% of a toddler's daily limit2% of a adult's daily limit
- Arsenic (total): typically 69.3 ppb (FDA, 9 samples, 2018-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
- Inorganic arsenic: typically 90.4 ppb (FDA, 3 samples, 2018-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 9.7 g (0.34 oz) a day; an adult at about 45 g (1.6 oz).One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):▲ 10× a toddler's daily limit▲ 2.2× a adult's daily limit
- Lead, Mercury, Perchlorate: usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Cereal, crisped rice: found in 1 of 3, average 1.5, highest 4.5 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Cereal, granola: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Granola bar: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Cereal, crisped rice: found in 3 of 3, average 21.7, highest 39 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Cereal, granola: found in 3 of 3, average 16, highest 18 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Granola bar: found in 3 of 3, average 8.47, highest 11 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Cereal, crisped rice: found in 2 of 3, average 2.37, highest 4.1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Cereal, granola: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Granola bar: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Cereal, crisped rice: found in 3 of 3, average 170, highest 210 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Cereal, granola: found in 3 of 3, average 16.3, highest 19 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Granola bar: found in 3 of 3, average 21.7, highest 28 ppb (2018-2020)
- Inorganic arsenic in Cereal, crisped rice: found in 3 of 3, average 93.1, highest 103 ppb (2018-2020)
- Perchlorate in Crisped rice cereal: found in 4 of 20, average 0.45, highest 3 ppb (2008-2012)
"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.
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- Low Carb Zone Snacking Cereal Vanilla 200g Low Carb Zone · Snack Foods - Cereal Snacks
- Plan*t Crispy Chick*n Strips 250g Plan*t · Snack Foods - Cereal Snacks