Assessment of Gluten-Free Food Sourced Heavy Metal Accumulation for Celiac People

Abstract

This paper shows an evaluation to the study of some heavy metals in certain gluten-free foods for celiac people marketed in Kayseri, Turkey. The concentration values of Cu, Mn, Co, Pb, Cr, Zn, Ni, Cd and Fe in eleven different gluten-free food samples are reported. The determinations were carried out by flame atomic absorption spectrometry after wet digestion method. The average metal concentrations of all the analyzed samples were determined in the range of 0.