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. 2018 Aug 21;10(9):1135. doi: 10.3390/nu10091135

Table 1.

Examples of melatonin content in plants, foods and drinks data from: [10,11,12].

Plant/Food/Drink (Phyto)melatonin Content
Walnuts 3–4 ng/g
Strawberry 12 pg/g
Tomato 32 pg/g
Cereals 1000–1300 pg/g
Extra virgin olive oil 70–119 pg/mL
Wine 4000–5000 pg/mL
Beer 52–170 pg/mL
Apple 48 pg/g
Banana 0.66 ng/g
Pineapple 0.28 ng/g
Orange 0.15 ng/g
Green tea 250 ng/g
Chamomile 300 ng/g
Coffee 780 ng/mL
Chicken meat and skin 2.3 ± 0.23 ng/g
Chicken liver and heart 1.1 ± 0.01 ng
Lamb 1.6 ± 0.14 ng/g
Beef 2.1 ± 0.13 ng/g
Pork 2.5 ± 0.18 ng/g
Salmon 3.7 ± 0.21 ng/g
Solid dried eggs 6.1 ± 0.95 ng/g
Human milk 0–42 pg/mL
Cow milk 3–25 pg/mL