Monitoring of Heavy Metal Content in Fruits and Vegetables Collected from Production and Market Sites in the Misurata Area of Libya

Table 2

Concentration of heavy metals (mg/kg or ppm) in fruits and vegetables.

Commodity	Moisture content (%)			Concentrations of metals
		Pb	Cd	Zn	Cu	Co	Ni
			Fruits
Banana	75.0	0.10±0.01	0.05±0.01	6.34±0.57	3.21±0.66	1.168±0.559	1.316±0.635
Peach	90.3	0.25±0.05	0.02±0.01	5.87±0.43	1.87±0.25	1.049±0.203	1.119±0.220
Orange	88.5	0.20±0.04	0.03±0.02	2.15±0.01	1.25±0.11	0.763±0.379	1.099±0.368
Strawberries	90.1	0.53±0.20	0.01±0.02	1.32±3.12	3.14±0.58	0.272±0.026	1.818±0.103
Watermelon	95.4	0.5±0.20	0.03±0.02	5.11±0.15	1.19±1.00	0.141±0.091	0.597±0.280
Melon	92.5	0.25±0.02	0.03±0.01	8.24±0.78	6.21±0.10	0.340±0.014	0.645±0.195
Apple	85.0	0.2±0.06	0.06±0.03	2.34±0.13	1.50±0.10	0.437±0.062	1.00±0.145
Grape	89.1	0.4±0.03	0.05±0.02	1.33±0.21	2.13±0.19	0.521±0.022	0.631±0.014
Mango	82.1	1.824±0.821	0.362±0.03	0.635±0.055	3.186±0.356	0.561±0.128	5.143±0.517
			Vegetables
Tomatoes	94.0	0.511±0.081	0.250±0.025	8.427±0.635	2.245±0.050	0.45±0.011	0.20±0.052
Onion	86.4	0.14±0.07	0.02±0.00	11.4±0.64	1.49±0.06	0.51±0.023	0.32±0.034
Potatoes	75.2	0.02±0.05	0.02±0.01	7.11±0.54	0.75±0.21	0.55±0.018	0.25±0.032
Green pepper	91.3	0.47±0.03	0.07±0.01	0.042−0.052	2.97±0.33	0.34±0.015	0.19±0.016
Carrot	85.6	0.21±0.05	0.12±0.02	3.61±0.5	5.00±0.11	0.54±0.017	0.21±0.031
Cucumber	94.3	0.10±0.02	0.20±0.04	9.65±0.86	5.75±0.61	0.62±0.022	0.22±0.061
Spinach	89.9	0.32±0.02	0.27±0.03	16.83±2.82	5.32±0.54	0.54±0.021	0.26±0.065