Common
beverages
Apple cider
Apple juices
Beer (hops) 20,000-40,000 ppm
Coffee bean 90,000 ppm
Grape juices
Guarana 85,000-120,000 ppm
Mate 40,000-160,000 ppm
Red wines
White wines aged in oak
Rose hip tea
Tea 33,000-270,000 ppm
Beans
Black beans
Red beans
(White beans have few if any tannins)
Spices
Allspice
Cinnamon
Clove
Coriander
Cumin
Oregano
Tarragon
Thyme
Turmeric
Vanilla
Probably many more spices have tannins
Products with phenolic additives
Food dyes
(including
annatto - often used in
yellow cheeses,
margarines)
Vitamin pills; prescription and
non-prescription
drugs with food dyes, acacia, herbs,
phenolic fillers and binders
Most herbal products
contain tannins
Phenolic fumes such as
perfumes, paint
fumes, "fragrances" as in ingredient in
soaps, shampoos, skin creams, hand
creams, etc.; petroleum-based
cleaning products, etc. |
Fruits
Apricot 600-1000 ppm
Banana
Berries (see below)
Cherries (red)
Currants, red and black
Dates 200-18,000 ppm
Eggplant 2000 ppm
Grape
Kiwi 9,000 ppm
Nectarine
Peach 8,000 ppm
Persimmon, Hayachi
Fuyu persimmons do not have tannins
Pomegranate (juice) 17,000 ppm
Berries
Blackberry
Blueberry
Cranberry
Gooseberry
Raspberry 6,200 ppm
Strawberry
Nuts
Black walnut 147,000 ppm
Cashew
English walnut 122,300 ppm
Pecan
Pistachio6
(Peanuts without skins have few if any tannins)
Misc.
Alfalfa (herbal supplement base)
27,000 ppm
Barley
Breads with barley flour (check ingredients!)
Chocolate (Cacao bean) 75,400
ppm
Carob 12,000 ppm (& carob bean
gum)
Chicory
Many herbs & herbal teas (see list)
Smoked foods (Oak, mesquite, etc.)
Cigarette smoke (incl.
2nd-hand) |