ReviewEnvironmental science and pollution research international2015
The uptake and bioaccumulation of heavy metals by food plants, their effects on plants nutrients, and associated health risk: a review.
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184 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 923 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Heavy Metals in Agriculture: Sources, Industrial Applications, Plant Toxicity, and Remediation Approaches.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Evaluating the Influence of Food Trade on Human Exposure to Heavy Metals via Crops in China.Toxics · 2026Article
- Health risk assessment and ionomic profiling under cadmium, lead, zinc, and manganese stress in Amaranthus cruentus.BMC plant biology · 2026Article
- Assessment of particulate matter exposure levels and associated respiratory symptoms among oil seed processing factories workers.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Impact of extraction methods on Monte Carlo based dietary health risk assessment of potentially harmful elements in edible plants.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Mapping geochemical distribution, toxicity and ecological risk indices of potentially toxic elements in cultured fish and surface water (Blacksea catchment/Türkiye).Biometals : an international journal on the role of metal ions in biology, biochemistry, and medicine · 2026Article
- Metal uptake in sweet peppers cultivated in soils contaminated by artisanal gold mining: implications for food safety.Environmental geochemistry and health · 2026Article
- The changes of heavy metals and some necessary elements in leaf, fruit and soil on apple cultivar golden delicious by applying urban treated wastewater.BMC plant biology · 2026Article
- Artemisia and the Elements: A Botanical Symphony of Minerals and Metals.Biological trace element research · 2026Review
- Bioaccumulation of potentially toxic elements in selected vegetables of Noakhali district, Bangladesh and their associated health risks.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Endocrine-disrupting properties of heavy metal exposure contribute to the intergenerational effects on learning and memory.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2026Review
- Integrated hydrochar-bacteria strategy for heavy metal removal.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Review
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- Ecotoxicological Effects of Heavy Metals on Rice (Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Plant Responses to Heavy Metal Stresses: Mechanisms, Defense Strategies, and Nanoparticle-Assisted Remediation.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Heavy Metal Toxicity in Cereals: Uptake Mechanisms, Physiological Impacts, and Mitigation Strategies.Toxics · 2025Review
124 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
Heavy metal contamination is a globally recognized environmental issue, threatening human life very seriously. Increasing population and high demand for food resulted in release of various contaminants into environment that finally contaminate the food chain. Edible plants are the major source of diet, and their contamination with toxic metals may result in catastrophic health hazards. Heavy metals affect the human health directly and/or indirectly; one of the indirect effects is the change in plant nutritional values. Previously, a number of review papers have been published on different aspects of heavy metal contamination. However, no related information is available about the effects of heavy metals on the nutritional status of food plants. This review paper is focused upon heavy metal sources, accumulation, transfer, health risk, and effects on protein, amino acids, carbohydrates, fats, and vitamins in plants. The literature about heavy metals in food plants shows that both leafy and nonleafy vegetables are good accumulators of heavy metals. In nonleafy vegetables, the bioaccumulation pattern was leaf > root ≈ stem > tuber. Heavy metals have strong influence on nutritional values; therefore, plants grown on metal-contaminated soil were nutrient deficient and consumption of such vegetables may lead to nutritional deficiency in the population particularly living in developing countries which are already facing the malnutrition problems.
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