Are You Aware of the Heavy Metals Hidden in Your Food?

Vegetables and fruits: 400g, Protein: 60g, Fat/vegetable oil: 312.3g kg-1 (unsaturated –272.95g kg-1, saturated 31.23g kg-1, trans-fatty acids 3.123g kg-1), Salt (sodium and potassium): 5g, Free sugar: 74g, Fish and seafood: 150g, Carbohydrate: 130g.

Regular intake of health fat/vegetable oils can be correlated with gut microbiota composition balance and short-chain fatty acids production, health promotion, and the prevention of several metabolic diseases, neurological diseases behavior disorder, cancers, autoimmune diseases, and others for consumers.

The primary factors contributing to the contamination and bioaccumulation of heavy metals and metalloids in vegetables and animals and their by-products used as food include the overuse of fertilizers and pesticides, mechanization systems, industrial and vehicle fumes, wastewater (domestic, municipal, and industrial), sewage and sludge, contaminated irrigation water (river and effluent), solid mineral soil, growing and super population in urban and rural conditions, welding, plating, workshopping industries, wash services, oil, pharmaceutical and petrol industry, product harvesting system, storage and commercialization processes, and others.

<p>industrialization, urbanization, transport systems, petrol, mining, energy, pesticides and fertilizers, sludge, sewage and wastewater used in agriculture and animal farming, and transport system.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>mining, electroplating, cement, pesticides, fertilizers, paint and others based in developed countries.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>through the accumulation of such substances in plants and animals, which are then consumed by humans, leading to several metabolic diseases, including different types of cancer.</p> Signup and view all the answers