According to consumer reports :
Things are looking grim for this longtime lunchbox staple. According to new testing from Consumer Reports, measurable levels of various heavy metals—arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury—may lurking in your children’s favorite juice box.
Out of the study’s 45 fruit juices across 24 kid-marketed brands—from Welch’s and Juicy Juice to Honest Kids, among other popular names—nearly half tested positive for concerning levels of arsenic, cadmium, lead. (Mercury was detected in some of the samples, but not to a concerning level.) Grape juice and “juice blends” proved to be the worst culprits, containing some of the highest average metal levels, compared to apple and pear juices; meanwhile, organic juice varieties didn’t perform any better than their conventional counterparts.
