Ideas in this flowchart

• Sources and amounts of fluoride in drinking water, beverages, and foods
• When a community fluoridates its drinking water
• More than 70 percent of a person’s fluoride comes from drinking fluoridated water
• Teas and grape juice are beverages with relatively high amounts of fluoride
• Solid foods generally do not contain large amounts of fluoride
• Food fluoride depends on fluoride in the soil or water where it was grown and on whether fluoridated water was used for cooking
• Canned meats and fish containing bones contain some fluoride
• Reported fluoride contents of selected foods
• Fruit juice: 0.02–2.1 mg per 3.5 fluid ounces
• Canned crab: 0.21 mg per 3.5 ounces
• Cooked rice: 0.04 mg per 3.5 ounces
• Cooked fish: 0.02 mg per 3.5 ounces
• Chicken: 0.015 mg per 3.5 ounces