Concentrated in shellfish and dark poultry meat; involved in bile salt conjugation and cell volume regulation.
6 foods, grouped by presence band. Bands are used instead of amounts because compound content swings widely with cultivar, soil, storage and preparation — a single number per food would look more precise than the measurements justify.
Consistently reported in this food in amounts researchers treat as meaningful.
Gallus gallus domesticus
Dark leg meat, richer in myoglobin, fat and connective tissue than breast because these are the muscles the bird actually uses.…
Mytilus edulis
Rope- or bottom-grown bivalves that need no feed input, making them one of the lowest-impact animal foods produced. They open…
Crassostrea virginica
Filter-feeding bivalve molluscs, farmed and wild-harvested, whose flavour tracks the water they grew in closely enough that…
Penaeus spp.
Decapod crustaceans, the most traded seafood in the world by value and now largely farmed. Their shells contain astaxanthin bound…
Recorded in this food without a dependable quantity attached to it.
Detected only in small amounts.