Edamame, cooked

Listed nutrients, per 100 g

For each nutrient, the value this page uses is marked “used”. A row marked “second database” is another database’s figure for a matching food, kept so you can see how far databases disagree (they can differ in the samples analysed, lab methods and rounding). Its own cells are worked out from it, but none of the page’s words or scores are.

Change the amount to rescale the first column. Nutrients a database doesn't list are missing, not zero.

Hazard rows as the dataset rates them

• Cadmium · Not rated yet · Not rated: EFSA's 2009 tolerable weekly intake for cadmium is 175 µg/week for 70 kg, but no measurement of edamame (green soybean, frozen or cooked) was found. Dry mature soybeans measured 3.7–11 µg/kg in CFIA samples, a different stage, and cooked mature soybeans (20.5 µg/kg) are not used as a proxy, so the as-eaten amount is left missing. · CFIA 2016–2017 · C
• Lead · Not rated yet · Not rated: no safe level of lead is set, so once measured it would be rated by what a serving adds to average adult intake (28–41 µg/day, EFSA 2012). No measurement of edamame was found. Dry mature soybeans measured 6.1–11 µg/kg in CFIA samples, a different stage, and cooked mature soybeans (29 µg/kg) are not used as a proxy, so the amount is left missing. · CFIA 2016–2017 · C
• Soy and levothyroxine · Worth knowing · Flagged for people on levothyroxine: soy foods may reduce its absorption. The US label names soybean flour and soybean-based infant formula, not edamame, so applying it to whole green soybeans is by extension, and the label gives no quantity; people on levothyroxine are told to keep soy away from the dose. · SYNTHROID · A
• Soy allergy · Worth knowing · Flagged for people with a soy allergy: soy is a Health Canada priority allergen, and edamame is whole soy. This is a flag, not a dose calculation. · Health Canada, Soy - A priority food allergen · A
• Uncooked frozen vegetables · Worth knowing · Flagged for pregnancy, older adults and weakened immunity: Health Canada tells these groups to cook frozen vegetables before eating them. Edamame is sold frozen, often blanched; this row is the cooked, prepared form, so the flag applies to eating it straight from the bag without heating. · Health Canada, Food safety for vulnerable populations: foods to avoid · A

Sources

• CFIA, Pesticides and Metals in Grain Products and Ready-to-Eat Meals, April 1, 2016 to March 31, 2017
  cfia-pesticides-metals-2016-2017 · dataset · Open Government Licence - Canada
• Health Canada, Canadian Nutrient File 2026 (14th edition)
  cnf-2026 · dataset · Open Government Licence – Canada 2.0
• SYNTHROID (levothyroxine sodium) tablet, label, DailyMed set id 1e11ad30-1041-4520-10b0-8f9d30d30fcc, published 2024-02-29
  dailymed-synthroid · page · US government label text (DailyMed)
• USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy, 2018-04
  fdc-sr-legacy-2018-04 · dataset · CC0 1.0 (public domain)
• Health Canada, Soy - A priority food allergen (page modified 2017-09-11)
  hc-soy-priority-allergen · page · Government of Canada terms (Crown copyright; not OGL)
• Health Canada, Food safety for vulnerable populations: foods to avoid (uncooked frozen vegetables)
  hc-vulnerable-foods · page · Government of Canada terms (Crown copyright; not OGL)

Body map 2026-10-25.1: each nutrient’s job comes from an agency fact sheet, linked beside it under Good for.

The plain words: “a lot” means one serving (100 g when the food has no serving size) gives at least 20% of the daily amount (the reference intake), “some” at least 10%, “a little” at least 2% (the cut-offs are ours, one set for every page: 20% and 10% are borrowed from the US labelling terms “high” and “good source” and applied to Health Canada’s daily amount, whereas Health Canada’s own shopper rule says 15%; provisional: they may change in a later method version). The daily amount is Health Canada’s Dietary Reference Intake for adults 19–30; where men and women need different amounts we use the higher one (protein: 56 g for men, 46 g for women). The percentage printed under each nutrient is the printed amount as a share of that daily amount, rounded to the nearest whole number, and the word is read from that percentage, so the amount, the percentage and the word always agree. Calcium with a measured absorption is scaled by how well it gets in compared with milk.

The scale: “Nothing to watch” means a serving a day stays under the limit at ordinary amounts; “Go easy” means a serving a day can push past the limit for adults who already take in the most, or fewer than 2 servings reach it; “Limit it” means once a week or less. The dataset’s own rating is under “How we got this”. Provisional: the scale may change in a later method version.

Measured absorption under Good for: grade-A studies in adults that tested this preparation of this food, as a share of the listed amount (the share digested, for protein), quoted once each source has passed our evidence check; animal studies and other variants stay in the table above. Provisional: this screen may change in a later method version.