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A small glass bowl of canned whole tomatoes

Tomatoes, canned

Checked by us One serving: 125 g (about ½ cup) · 24 kcal

Weighed with the liquid in the can.

Lots of thiamin.

Nothing to watch so far.

Good for

How we counted this

What one serving (125 g) gives you.

Your body needs enough of each of these. Past enough, more doesn’t help. Amounts are what the food databases list, not what your body absorbs, unless a row says it was measured.

The words: “A lot” means one serving gives 20% or more of Health Canada’s daily amount, “Some” 10% to 19%, “A little” 2% to 9%, “Almost none” under 2%. Strongest word first; within a word, protein and fibre lead, then the biggest share.

A milligram (mg) is a thousandth of a gram, and a microgram (µg) a thousandth of a milligram: 1,000 µg make 1 mg.

21 more nutrients below “a lot”

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How we counted this
  • Cadmium

    Nothing to watch

    You’d need about 3.1 servings a day, every day, of this food alone to use up what an average adult’s intake leaves under the limit.

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    One serving carries 2.37 µg

    How we got this

    A serving a day adds 13% to what an average adult already takes in: a share of that intake, not of the limit. With that serving every day, an average adult would be at about 80% of the limit.

    An average adult already takes in about 71% of the limit. One serving a day fits in the room left.

    Counted from zero, with no allowance for what adults already take in from other food, 9,300 g a week would reach the limit.

    Why this rating: Eating it daily comes to 875 g a week, which stays within the 2,700 g of room left before the limit.

    The dataset’s rating: Nothing to watch: under the limit

    A daily serving adds 13% 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, Canadian Total Diet Study – Trace Elements (2005–2018 composites) · grade B

    Every food with cadmium

Checked for lead: fine at normal amounts.
  • Lead

    Nothing to watch

    You’d need about 46 servings a day, every day, of this food alone to double the lead an average adult already gets. No dose is known to be safe, so doubling is where we flag.

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    A serving a day adds 2.2% to what an average adult already takes in. There is no limit to take a share of.

    One serving carries 0.76 µg

    How we got this

    The dataset’s rating: Nothing to watch: doesn’t double average intake

    No safe threshold is set for lead. A serving adds about 2.2% to the average adult lead intake (35 µg/day), far from doubling it, so no cap. Without 1999 the mean is 6.02 (n 16); the three most recent (2016-2018) 3.19, so lead in canned tomatoes has fallen since 2000-2012 (peak 11.2 in 2007). FDA 'Sauce, tomato, canned': 0 of 3 detected, reporting limit 4 ppb.

    Health Canada, Canadian Total Diet Study – Trace Elements (2005–2018 composites) · grade B

    Every food with lead

Worth knowing

No limit applies, so none is rated.

  • Sugar

    3.2 g of sugar in a 125 g serving, natural and added together.

    Learn more

    Shown, not rated. The food tables we read give total sugar, and few give added sugar, so the site can’t yet tell sugar added in making a food from the sugar in fruit or milk.

Also checked (nothing to act on) · 4

Noted for context, or not measured in this food yet.

  • Shown as context, not rated: 3.76 ng/g x 125 g = 0.47 µg, 6.7 ng/kg body weight for 70 kg, about 33 times EFSA's 2023 tolerable daily intake of 0.2 ng/kg body weight/day. EFSA found that average and high dietary exposures in every age group exceed that limit by two to three orders of magnitude, so one food set against a whole-diet, lifetime limit is indicative only. No Health Canada tolerable intake was found.

  • Shown as context: against EFSA's no-effect level of 50 mg histamine per meal for healthy people (EFSA 2011), a 125 g serving of crushed tomato carries about 0.15 mg at the mean of three products and 0.40 mg at the highest, under 1%. No canned whole tomato was found measured, so crushed tomato stands in. Histamine intolerance is person-specific, and no tomato dose-response was found.

  • Not measured in this food yet. Not measured yet for canned tomato: EFSA's 2008 nitrate opinion gives fresh tomatoes only (mean 43 mg/kg, 856 samples; an 85 g fresh serving is about 1.4% of the acceptable daily intake), and no canned-tomato figure was found.

  • Not measured in this food yet. Not rated: EFSA (2020) could not characterize the risk of tomato glycoalkaloids for lack of occurrence data in food, and no canned-tomato figure was found. The nearest product in EFSA's literature summary, stewed red tomatoes, held 1.1 mg/kg in one US study from 1995; ripe red tomatoes hold little alpha-tomatine (from not detected to 23 mg/kg), far less than green ones.

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How we counted this

“Better” here always means better at something the row names: more of one nutrient, more nutrients per serving, or the goal you pick. It never means better in every way.

Every amount below is for the same weight, 125 g, the size of one serving of this food, so a swap compares like with like. A serving of another food can be bigger or smaller.

Compared with the other vegetables we’ve checked.

A food is listed only if it gives clearly more: at least a fifth more than this food, and at least 10% of the daily amount more.

More of what it’s good for

For thiamin: no other vegetables we’ve checked give clearly more, in the same 125 g.

More nutrients per serving, counted together

The other vegetables we’ve checked with more nutrients per serving than this one, counting at most 100 kcal. One score ranks them all, so the same few often lead.

  • Turnip greens, cooked
    • More vitamin K1 (460 µg vs 3.25 µg)
    • More vitamin A (476 µg vs 25 µg)
    • More folate (148 µg vs 10 µg)
    • Less thiamin (0.06 mg vs 0.72 mg)
  • Kale, cooked
    • More vitamin K1 (523 µg vs 3.25 µg)
    • More omega-3: ALA (420 mg vs 5 mg)
    • More folate (81.3 µg vs 10 µg)
    • Less thiamin (0.08 mg vs 0.72 mg)
  • Brussels sprouts, cooked
    • More vitamin K1 (175 µg vs 3.25 µg)
    • More vitamin C (77.5 mg vs 9.63 mg)
    • More folate (75 µg vs 10 µg)
    • Less thiamin (0.13 mg vs 0.72 mg)

Where the calcium card measured that less calcium gets in than from milk, calcium counts for less; everything else is as listed.

Your goal

Your goal changes only this list, not what the food gives you or what to watch.

Losing weight: fewer calories, and more nutrients, protein and fibre for each calorie.

  • Asparagus, cooked
    • More vitamin K1 (63.3 µg vs 3.25 µg)
    • More folate (186 µg vs 10 µg)
    • More selenium (7.63 µg vs 0.88 µg)
    • Less thiamin (0.2 mg vs 0.72 mg)
  • Turnip greens, cooked
    • More vitamin K1 (460 µg vs 3.25 µg)
    • More vitamin A (476 µg vs 25 µg)
    • More folate (148 µg vs 10 µg)
    • Less thiamin (0.06 mg vs 0.72 mg)
  • Broccoli, cooked
    • More vitamin K1 (110 µg vs 3.25 µg)
    • More vitamin C (50.1 mg vs 9.63 mg)
    • More folate (70 µg vs 10 µg)
    • Less thiamin (0.07 mg vs 0.72 mg)
Why some foods aren’t suggested

Left out: Spinach, cooked (Cadmium: go easy · lots of oxalate, more than its own calcium can bind).

Left out: Edamame, cooked (not tested for contaminants yet).

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Name in the database: Tomatoes, red, ripe, canned, whole (solids and liquids)

How the serving was set: 1/2 cup (125 mL) canned (Health Canada V.1), taken as 125 g at 1 g/mL.

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.

NutrientPer servingPer 100 caloriesHowSourceGrade
Omega-3: ALA0.004 g0.01 g0.02 gfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Calcium19.83 mg24.79 mg103.55 mglisted usedUS food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2685578C
11 mg13.75 mg57.44 mgsecond database · not usedUK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-530C
33 mg41.25 mg172.33 mgcopy of USDA · not usedCanadian Nutrient File 2026 #2462C
Carbohydrate4.287 g5.36 g22.39 glisted usedUS food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2685578C
Choline6.4 mg8 mg33.42 mgfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Energy19.149 kcal23.94 kcal–FDC Energy (Atwater Specific Factors) usedUS food database (USDA Foundation Foods)–
16 kcal20 kcal–from SR Legacy · not usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Omega-3: EPA + DHA0 g0 g0 gfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Fat0.206 g0.26 g1.08 glisted usedUS food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2685578C
0.1 g0.13 g0.52 gsecond database · not used · 2.1×UK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-530C
Cholesterol0 mg0 mg0 mgfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Fatty acids, total saturated0.034 g0.04 g0.18 gfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Fibre0.873 g1.09 g4.56 glisted usedUS food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2685578C
0.8 g1 g4.18 gsecond database · not usedUK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-530C
Folate8 µg10 µg41.78 µgfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
11 µg13.75 µg57.44 µgsecond database · not usedUK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-530C
Iron0.929 mg1.16 mg4.85 mglisted usedUS food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2685578C
0.57 mg0.71 mg2.98 mgsecond database · not usedUK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-530C
Magnesium10.75 mg13.44 mg56.14 mglisted usedUS food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2685578C
10 mg12.5 mg52.22 mgsecond database · not usedUK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-530C
Niacin (B3, niacin equivalents)0.845 mg1.06 mg4.41 mglisted usedCanadian Nutrient File 2026 #2462C
Phosphorus17.31 mg21.64 mg90.39 mglisted usedUS food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2685578C
17 mg21.25 mg88.78 mgsecond database · not usedUK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-530C
Potassium202.9 mg253.63 mg1,059.56 mglisted usedUS food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2685578C
212 mg265 mg1,107.08 mgsecond database · not usedUK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-530C
Protein0.868 g1.08 g4.53 glisted usedUS food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2685578C
1.1 g1.38 g5.74 gsecond database · not usedUK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-530C
Riboflavin (B2)0.055 mg0.07 mg0.29 mgfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
0.04 mg0.05 mg0.21 mgsecond database · not usedUK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-530C
Selenium0.7 µg0.88 µg3.66 µgfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Sodium111.5 mg139.38 mg582.26 mglisted usedUS food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2685578C
5 mg6.25 mg26.11 mgsecond database · not used · 22.3×UK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-530C
Sugars2.55 g3.19 g13.32 gfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
3.8 g4.75 g19.84 gsecond database · not usedUK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-530C
Thiamin (B1)0.575 mg0.72 mg3 mgfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
0.13 mg0.16 mg0.68 mgsecond database · not used · 4.4×UK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-530C
Vitamin A20 µg25 µg104.44 µgfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Vitamin B120 µg0 µg0 µgfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
0 µg0 µg0 µgsecond database · not usedUK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-530C
Vitamin B60.111 mg0.14 mg0.58 mgfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
0.12 mg0.15 mg0.63 mgsecond database · not usedUK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-530C
Vitamin C7.7 mg9.63 mg40.21 mglisted usedUS food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2685578C
11 mg13.75 mg57.44 mgsecond database · not usedUK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-530C
Vitamin D0 µg0 µg0 µgfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
0 µg0 µg0 µgsecond database · not usedUK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-530C
Vitamin E0.59 mg0.74 mg3.08 mgfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
1.36 mg1.7 mg7.1 mgsecond database · not used · 2.3×UK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-530C
Vitamin K12.6 µg3.25 µg13.58 µgfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
6 µg7.5 µg31.33 µgsecond database · not used · 2.3×UK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-530C
Water93.93 g117.41 g490.51 glisted usedUS food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2685578C
92.9 g116.13 g485.13 gsecond database · not usedUK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-530C
Zinc0.12 mg0.15 mg0.63 mglisted usedUS food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2685578C
0.1 mg0.13 mg0.52 mgsecond database · not usedUK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-530C
NutrientPer 100 gPer servingPer 100 caloriesHowSourceGrade
Beta-carotene245 µg306.25 µg1,279.41 µgfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
300 µg375 µg1,566.62 µgsecond database · not usedUK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-530C
Copper0.059 mg0.07 mg0.31 mglisted usedUS food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2685578C
0.07 mg0.09 mg0.37 mgsecond database · not usedUK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-530C
Energy (Atwater general)22.476 kcal28.1 kcal117.37 kcallisted usedUS food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2685578C
Energy (Atwater specific)19.149 kcal23.94 kcal100 kcallisted usedUS food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2685578C
Nitrogen0.139 g0.17 g0.72 glisted usedUS food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2685578C
Ash0.709 g0.89 g3.7 glisted usedUS food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2685578C
Sucrose0 g0 g0 glisted usedUS food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2685578C
Glucose1.273 g1.59 g6.65 glisted usedUS food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2685578C
Fructose1.34 g1.68 g7 glisted usedUS food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2685578C
Maltose0 g0 g0 glisted usedUS food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2685578C
Alcohol, ethyl0 g0 g0 gfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Caffeine0 mg0 mg0 mgfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Theobromine0 mg0 mg0 mgfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Energy69 kj86.25 kj360.32 kjfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Sugars, Total2.613 g3.27 g13.65 glisted usedUS food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2685578C
Galactose0 g0 g0 gfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Fluoride, F5.1 µg6.38 µg26.63 µgfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Vitamin A, IU408 iu510 iu2,130.61 iufrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Carotene, alpha0 µg0 µg0 µgfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Vitamin D (D2 + D3), International Units0 iu0 iu0 iufrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Cryptoxanthin, beta0 µg0 µg0 µgfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Lycopene2,537 µg3,171.25 µg13,248.42 µgfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Tocopherol, beta0.01 mg0.01 mg0.05 mgfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Tocopherol, gamma0.06 mg0.08 mg0.31 mgfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Tocopherol, delta0 mg0 mg0 mgfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Tocotrienol, alpha0 mg0 mg0 mgfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Tocotrienol, beta0 mg0 mg0 mgfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Tocotrienol, gamma0 mg0 mg0 mgfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Tocotrienol, delta0 mg0 mg0 mgfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Folic acid0 µg0 µg0 µgfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Folate, food8 µg10 µg41.78 µgfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Folate, DFE8 µg10 µg41.78 µgfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Tryptophan0.008 g0.01 g0.04 gfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Threonine0.042 g0.05 g0.22 gfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Isoleucine0.022 g0.03 g0.11 gfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Leucine0.027 g0.03 g0.14 gfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Lysine0.028 g0.04 g0.15 gfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Methionine0.008 g0.01 g0.04 gfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Cystine0.008 g0.01 g0.04 gfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Phenylalanine0.027 g0.03 g0.14 gfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Tyrosine0.018 g0.02 g0.09 gfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Valine0.016 g0.02 g0.08 gfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Arginine0.023 g0.03 g0.12 gfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Histidine0.015 g0.02 g0.08 gfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Alanine0.032 g0.04 g0.17 gfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Aspartic acid0.153 g0.19 g0.8 gfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Glutamic acid0.451 g0.56 g2.36 gfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Glycine0.019 g0.02 g0.1 gfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Proline0.015 g0.02 g0.08 gfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Serine0.024 g0.03 g0.13 gfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Vitamin E, added0 mg0 mg0 mgfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Vitamin B-12, added0 µg0 µg0 µgfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Fatty acids, total trans0 g0 g0 gfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
SFA 4:00 g0 g0 gfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
SFA 6:00 g0 g0 gfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
SFA 8:00 g0 g0 gfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
SFA 10:00 g0 g0 gfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
SFA 12:00 g0 g0 gfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
SFA 14:00 g0 g0 gfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
SFA 16:00.025 g0.03 g0.13 gfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
SFA 18:00.009 g0.01 g0.05 gfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
MUFA 18:10.038 g0.05 g0.2 gfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
PUFA 18:20.097 g0.12 g0.51 gfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
PUFA 18:30.004 g0.01 g0.02 gfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
PUFA 20:40 g0 g0 gfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
PUFA 22:6 n-3 (DHA)0 g0 g0 gfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
MUFA 16:10.002 g0 g0.01 gfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
PUFA 18:40 g0 g0 gfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
MUFA 20:10 g0 g0 gfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
PUFA 20:5 n-3 (EPA)0 g0 g0 gfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
MUFA 22:10 g0 g0 gfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
PUFA 22:5 n-3 (DPA)0 g0 g0 gfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Fatty acids, total monounsaturated0.04 g0.05 g0.21 gfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Fatty acids, total polyunsaturated0.101 g0.13 g0.53 gfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Lactose0 g0 g0 glisted usedUS food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2685578C
0 g0 g0 gsecond database · not usedUK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-530C
Lutein + zeaxanthin78 µg97.5 µg407.32 µgfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
Manganese0.075 mg0.09 mg0.39 mglisted usedUS food database (USDA Foundation Foods) #2685578C
0.09 mg0.11 mg0.47 mgsecond database · not usedUK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-530C
Niacin (B3, preformed)0.712 mg0.89 mg3.72 mgfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
1 mg1.25 mg5.22 mgsecond database · not usedUK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-530C
Pantothenic acid (B5)0.117 mg0.15 mg0.61 mgfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
0.11 mg0.14 mg0.57 mgsecond database · not usedUK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-530C
Retinol0 µg0 µg0 µgfrom SR Legacy usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170051C
0 µg0 µg0 µgsecond database · not usedUK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-530C

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

  • Bisphenol A (BPA) · Context · Shown as context, not rated: 3.76 ng/g x 125 g = 0.47 µg, 6.7 ng/kg body weight for 70 kg, about 33 times EFSA's 2023 tolerable daily intake of 0.2 ng/kg body weight/day. EFSA found that average and high dietary exposures in every age group exceed that limit by two to three orders of magnitude, so one food set against a whole-diet, lifetime limit is indicative only. No Health Canada tolerable intake was found. · Health Canada Total Diet Study, BPA · A
  • Cadmium · Nothing to watch: under the limit · A daily serving adds 13% 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 · B
  • Histamine · Context · Shown as context: against EFSA's no-effect level of 50 mg histamine per meal for healthy people (EFSA 2011), a 125 g serving of crushed tomato carries about 0.15 mg at the mean of three products and 0.40 mg at the highest, under 1%. No canned whole tomato was found measured, so crushed tomato stands in. Histamine intolerance is person-specific, and no tomato dose-response was found. · Sanchezperez 2018 · B
  • Lead · Nothing to watch: doesn’t double average intake · No safe threshold is set for lead. A serving adds about 2.2% to the average adult lead intake (35 µg/day), far from doubling it, so no cap. Without 1999 the mean is 6.02 (n 16); the three most recent (2016-2018) 3.19, so lead in canned tomatoes has fallen since 2000-2012 (peak 11.2 in 2007). FDA 'Sauce, tomato, canned': 0 of 3 detected, reporting limit 4 ppb. · Health Canada Total Diet Study, trace elements · B
  • Nitrate · Not rated yet · Not measured yet for canned tomato: EFSA's 2008 nitrate opinion gives fresh tomatoes only (mean 43 mg/kg, 856 samples; an 85 g fresh serving is about 1.4% of the acceptable daily intake), and no canned-tomato figure was found. · EFSA 2008 · B
  • Tomato glycoalkaloids · Not rated yet · Not rated: EFSA (2020) could not characterize the risk of tomato glycoalkaloids for lack of occurrence data in food, and no canned-tomato figure was found. The nearest product in EFSA's literature summary, stewed red tomatoes, held 1.1 mg/kg in one US study from 1995; ripe red tomatoes hold little alpha-tomatine (from not detected to 23 mg/kg), far less than green ones. · EFSA 2020 · B

Oxalate, phytate and gut-tolerance measurements

  • fodmap excess fructose: 0.067 g/100 g (Foundation 2685578: 1.34 - 1.273); 0.07 (SR 170051: 1.31 - 1.24); 0.0 (CoFID 13-530: 1.9 - 1.9); crushed Foundation 2685581: 0.174 (1.959 - 1.785) g/100 g · as sold (solids and liquids) · canned · grade B · US food database (USDA Foundation Foods)
  • histamine: crushed tomato: mean 1.22 (standard deviation 1.69), range 0.24-3.17, n = 3 mg/kg · as sold · crushed tomato, Spanish market products (own database) · grade B · Sanchezperez 2018
  • histamine: Greek pre-cooked "Salsa Napoletana" 1.8; slightly concentrated tomato juice 0.94 and 0.81; tomato ketchup 1.1 and 1.0 mg/kg · as sold · related tomato products (sauce, juice, ketchup) from Greek supermarkets; NOT canned whole tomatoes · grade B · Tsiasioti 2022
  • oxalate soluble: n = 1 (insoluble 9.6) mg/100 g · fresh weight (as sold) · canned, peeled · grade B · Salgado 2023
  • oxalate total: n = 1, "Canned, peeled" mg/100 g · fresh weight (as sold) · canned, peeled · grade B · Salgado 2023

Sources

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.