The "Traditional" pattern, composed of rice and tubers, beans, vegetable oils, nonleafy vegetables, meats, fish, and eggs (grilled, cooked or roasted), explained 10.9% of the data variance.
showing that the nitrate concentration of potato was higher than the recommended level of WHO (347.7 [+ or -] 45.4 mg [kg.sup.-1]); additionally, leafy vegetables contained the highest (673.8 [+ or -] 50/6) and nonleafy vegetables contained the lowest level of nitrate (12.5 [+ or -] 0.9 mg [kg.sup.-1]) [16].
showing that the nitrate concentration of potato was higher than the recommended level of WHO (347.7 [+ or -] 45.4mg [kg.sup.-1]); additionally, leafy vegetables contained the highest (673.8 [+ or -] 50/6) and nonleafy vegetables contained the lowest level of nitrate (12.5 [+ or -] 0.9mg [kg.sup.-1]) [16].
In west Bengal, India, leafy and root vegetables contained arsenic close to 100% in the iAs form; nonleafy vegetables contained ~74% of the iAs form (Halder et al.