The Canopy Blog
Research, explainers, and stories from the community funding independent contaminant testing.
What a Single Test Can and Can't Tell You
Every result on Canopy right now is a single test. It's a real number from a real sample, and it's worth taking seriously. But it answers a narrower question than people often assume, and it's worth understanding.
What Organic vs. Conventional Doesn't Tell You About Pesticide Exposure: Our Current Blueberry Data
Blueberries from four brands tested for pesticides show that conventional products can vary more from each other than they do from organic ones, and that the same result can look very different depending on whether it's scaled to an adult's or a child's body weight.
Where Do Contaminants in Food Come From?
Contaminants like heavy metals, PFAS, pesticide residues, and microplastics aren't on any label, because they enter food through how it's grown, raised, processed, and packaged rather than through the recipe. This post walks through where they come from at each step, and why testing is the only way to know what's actually in a given product.
How We Test Food: A Walkthrough Using Our Cereal Glyphosate Data
How Canopy tests food, start to finish: buying products off the shelf, testing them at qualified labs, and displaying the results in context you can use. Our cereal glyphosate data as an example.
What Are Contaminants in Food — and Why Aren't They on the Label?
Contaminants like heavy metals, PFAS, pesticides, and microplastics end up in your food but never appear on the label — and the only way to know they're there is to test. Here's why the gap exists and how Canopy's community-funded testing helps you choose products with lower contaminant levels.