Raisins

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

• Aflatoxins · Not rated yet · Not rated: for aflatoxin B1 EFSA's 2020 benchmark dose lower limit (BMDL10) is 0.4 µg/kg body weight/day with no safe level, and the contribution to average intake was not computed. Only 1 of 98 Canadian samples (2012-2013) had detectable aflatoxin, at 0.2 ng/g; 40 g from that sample would carry at most 8 ng, 0.11 ng/kg body weight. The report does not split the aflatoxin types. · CFIA 2012 · A
• Aluminum · Nothing to watch: under the limit · No cap: EFSA's 2008 tolerable weekly intake (TWI) for aluminium is 1 mg/kg body weight/week, 70,000 µg a week for 70 kg. Eaten alone, about 5,900 g of raisins a week would reach it (mean 11.83 µg/g, 17 composites, none non-detect). A serving carries 473 µg, and seven daily servings would be 4.7% of the weekly limit, so the band rests on the limit alone; background intake was not computed. The cause of the high level, about 14 times that in grapes, is not investigated. · Health Canada Total Diet Study, trace elements · A
• Arsenic, all forms · Not rated yet · Not rated: the reference is INORGANIC arsenic (EFSA 2024 benchmark dose lower limit (BMDL05) 0.06 µg/kg body weight/day; average 7.7 µg/day, seed) and the source gives TOTAL arsenic only. Stated worst case only, assuming 100% inorganic (not true of fruit): 40 g = 0.90 µg = 12% of 7.7 µg/day. · Health Canada Total Diet Study, trace elements · B
• Cadmium · Nothing to watch: under the limit · A daily serving adds 0.21% to an average adult's cadmium intake (EFSA 2012 adult median, 1.77 µg/kg body weight/week; Canadian adults in 2007: 1.2-1.75), far from doubling it, so no cap. · Health Canada Total Diet Study, trace elements · A
• Lead · Nothing to watch: doesn’t double average intake · No cap: no safe limit is set for lead (EFSA 2010 benchmark dose lower limit (BMDL01)), so no grams figure is given. Health Canada's total diet study gives a mean of 18.98 ng/g in raisins (17 composites, none non-detect). A serving carries 0.759 µg and adds about 2.2% to the average adult's lead intake (35 µg/day), far from doubling it. · Health Canada Total Diet Study, trace elements · A
• Ochratoxin A · Nothing to watch: doesn’t double average intake · No cap: no safe limit is set for ochratoxin A (EFSA 2020 benchmark dose lower limit (BMDL10) of 14.5 µg/kg body weight/day, kidney tumours in rats). Judged by what a daily serving adds to the average adult's intake: 40 g at the CFIA mean of 1.303 ng/g (189 samples, 29% non-detects) is 52.1 ng, 0.745 ng/kg body weight/day, about 19% to 44% of the lower-bound average adult exposure (12% to 44% across upper and lower bounds), well short of doubling it. The tail is wider: one serving at the 95th percentile (2.92 ng/g) is 117 ng, and the highest sample (116.4 ng/g) would be 4.7 µg in one sitting. · CFIA ochratoxin A survey (2012–2022) · A

Oxalate, phytate and gut-tolerance measurements

• fodmap excess fructose: derived: fructose 35.46 minus glucose 30.58 = 4.88 g/100 g; 1.95 g in a 40 g serving; Varney 2017 line 0.40 g per serve, so above it UNRESOLVED (checker): Varney's 0.40 g line applies where excess fructose is the only FODMAP present; raffinose (0.055 g/100 g) is also present, so the stricter 0.15 g line could apply. Raisins exceed either line. g/100 g · as sold (dried) · dried · grade B · US food database (USDA Foundation Foods)
• fodmap excess fructose: derived: fructose 34.67 minus glucose 30.51 = 4.16 g/100 g; 1.66 g in a 40 g serving; Varney 2017 line 0.40 g per serve, so above it UNRESOLVED (checker): Varney's 0.40 g line applies where excess fructose is the only FODMAP present; raffinose (0.055 g/100 g) is also present, so the stricter 0.15 g line could apply. Raisins exceed either line. g/100 g · as sold (dried) · dried · grade B · US food database (USDA SR Legacy)
• fodmap excess fructose: derived: fructose 36.45 minus glucose 32.23 = 4.22 g/100 g; 1.69 g in a 40 g serving; Varney 2017 line 0.40 g per serve, so above it UNRESOLVED (checker): Varney's 0.40 g line applies where excess fructose is the only FODMAP present; raffinose (0.055 g/100 g) is also present, so the stricter 0.15 g line could apply. Raisins exceed either line. g/100 g · as sold (dried) · dried · grade B · US food database (USDA Foundation Foods)
• fodmap gos: raffinose 0.0545 g/100 g; stachyose below quantification limit 0.0100; kestose below quantification limit 0.0100; nystose and 1F-beta-fructofuranosylnystose below quantification limit 0.0500; 0.022 g raffinose in 40 g g/100 g · as sold (dried) · raisins (form not stated beyond 'Raisins') · grade A · Natale 2025

Sources

• CFIA, Aflatoxins in Selected Corn Products, Nuts, Nut Products, Raisins, Cocoa Powder, Chili Powder and Paprika - April 1, 2012 to March 31, 2013
  cfia-aflatoxins-2012-13 · page · Government of Canada terms (Crown copyright)
• CFIA, Food Safety Action Plan Targeted Survey - Ochratoxin A in Selected Foods, 2012-2018 and 2019-2022
  cfia-ota-2012-2022 · dataset · Open Government Licence - Canada 2.0 (as for the other CFIA datasets; not checked on this page)
• Health Canada, Canadian Nutrient File 2026 (14th edition)
  cnf-2026 · dataset · Open Government Licence – Canada 2.0
• USDA FoodData Central, Foundation Foods, release 2026-04-30
  fdc-foundation-2026-04-30 · dataset · CC0 1.0 (public domain)
• USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy, 2018-04
  fdc-sr-legacy-2018-04 · dataset · CC0 1.0 (public domain)
• Health Canada, Canadian Total Diet Study – Trace Elements (2005–2018 composites)
  hc-tds-trace-elements · dataset · Open Government Licence – Canada 2.0
• Natale A, Fiori F, Turati F, La Vecchia C, Parpinel M, Rossi M, et al. Quantification of naturally occurring prebiotics in selected foods. Nutrients 2025;17(4):683. · doi:10.3390/nu17040683 · PMID 40005011
  natale-2025-nutrients · full text read · CC BY 4.0

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.