Table 7.
Calculated Contribution to Daily Intakes of Heavy Metals (%) by Consuming Analyzed Herbal Teas from Serbia for Adults (Men and Women).
| No. | Herbal tea | Contribution to daily intake of heavy metals (%) with herbal tea | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cu | Fe | Ni | Mn | Zn | |||||
| for men | for women | for men | for women | for men | for women | ||||
| 1 | Matricariae flos | 4.68 | 2.55 | 1.13 | 4.84 | 7.09 | 9.08 | 0.60 | 0.83 |
| 2 | Thymi herba | 5.65 | 11.56 | 5.13 | 8.23 | 8.89 | 11.38 | 0.67 | 0.93 |
| 3 | Menthae piperitae folium | 4.64 | 5.61 | 2.49 | 7.26 | 11.53 | 14.76 | 0.38 | 0.52 |
| 4 | Uvae ursi folium | 2.49 | 7.48 | 3.32 | 6.29 | 3.34 | 4.28 | 0.79 | 1.08 |
| 5 | Betulae folium | 5.61 | 2.96 | 1.31 | 2.42 | 91.47 | 117.10 | 5.53 | 7.62 |
| 6 | Althaeae radix | 9.37 | 2.21 | 0.98 | 5.33 | 3.18 | 4.07 | 0.46 | 0.63 |
| 7 | Gentianae radix | 4.09 | 4.12 | 1.83 | 9.68 | 18.10 | 23.17 | 0.89 | 1.23 |
| 8 | Glycyrrhizae radix | 3.76 | 6.29 | 2.79 | 2.61 | 3.10 | 3.97 | 0.26 | 0.36 |
| 9 | Frangulae cortex | 1.22 | 1.81 | 0.80 | 3.20 | 58.86 | 75.35 | 0.18 | 0.25 |
| 10 | Quercus cortex | 3.46 | 3.64 | 1.62 | 6.29 | 24.46 | 31.31 | 0.15 | 0.20 |