Health Notes & Tips: Copper in the Daily Diet

Recent health studies indicate that foods high in copper may effect blood cholesterol and blood pressure. In addition, copper may promote thrombosis. It may also impair glucose tolerance.

Foods highest in copper mg content include the following:

Food	Serving Size	Copper mg
Beef by-products such as liver	3 ounces pan fried	12.40
Mollusks, Oysters	3 ounces breaded & fried	3.65
Crustaceans, lobster	3 ounces, cooked, moist heat	1.32
Mushrooms, shiitake	1 cup cooked	1.30
Snacks, trail mix, regular, chocolate chips, salted nuts & seeds	1 cup	1.23
Candies, semisweet chocolate	1 cup	1.18
Crustaceans, crab, blue, canned	1 cup	1.10
Crustaceans, crab, Alaska king	3 ounces, cooked, moist heat	1.01
Tomato products, canned, paste	Tomato products, canned, paste,	1.00
Baking chocolate, unsweetened, squares	1 square	0.92
Barley, pearled, raw	1 cup	0.84
Mushrooms, white	1 cup, cooked, boiled	0.79
Macaroni and Cheese, canned	1 cup	0.75
Snacks, trail mix, tropical	1 cup	0.74
Nuts, chestnuts, European, roasted	1 cup	0.73
Soybeans, mature cooked, boiled	1 cup	0.70
Nuts, cashew nuts, dry roasted	1 ounce	0.63
Buckwheat flour, whole-groat	1 cup	0.62
Beans, white, mature seeds, canned	1 cup	0.61
Fast foods, chili con carne	1 cup	0.60
Seeds, sunflower seed kernels, dry roasted	1/4 cup	0.59
Nuts, cashew nuts, oil roasted	1 ounce (18 nuts)	0.58
Chickpeas (garbanzo beans, bengal gram)	1 cup boiled	0.58
Beans, baked, canned, with franks	1 cup	0.55
Rice, white, long-grain, parboiled	1 cup	0.53
Duck, domesticated, meat only, cooked, roasted	1/2 duck	0.51
Lentils, mature seeds, cooked, boiled	1 cup	0.50
Nuts, brazilnuts, dried, unblanched	1 ounce (6-8 nuts)	0.49
Wheat flour, whole-grain	1 cup	0.49
Potatoes, baked, skin	1 skin	0.47

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