Table 1

Cadmium concentrations in mg Cd kg−1 dry weight in cacao farm systems found in national surveys in Latin America.

Cd (mg kg−1) Brazil* Colombia Costa Rica Honduras Ecuador Peru
References (Araujo et al., 2022) (Bravo et al., 2021, 2024) (Carrillo et al., 2023) (Gramlich et al., 2018) (Argüello et al., 2019) (Thomas et al., 2023)
No. soil samples 15 1837 138 102 559 2051
Mean ± SD soil 1.44 ± 0.72 1.43 ± 0.52 0.22 ± 0.17 0.25 ± 0.02 0.44 ± 0.45
Min soil 0.6 0.01 0.1 0.02 0.02 0.36
Max soil 2.95 27 1.05 0.6 6.9 0.87
No. bean samples 15 1062 138 97 560 2018
Mean ± SD bean 0.64 ± 0.33 2.17 ± 2.71 0.56 ± 0.54 1.1 ± 0.1 0.9 ± 1.16
Min bean 0.25 0.02 0.03 0.03 0.22
Max bean 1.35 15.2 7.1 10.4 0.85

*Data for Brazil do not come from a Nation-scale study, but they were included as a point of comparison. No. = Number of.

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