The Bioconcentration and the Translocation of Heavy Metals in Recently Consumed Salicornia ramosissima J. Woods in Highly Contaminated Estuary Marshes and Its Food Risk

Salicornia species are halophyte plants that an important source for food, pharmacy, and bioenergy. They can be consumed as a leafy vegetable, but they accumulate heavy metals carry health risk when knowledge of how each behaves in different types soil is lacking. This present work aimed to determine what extent S. ramosissima cultivated food estuaries contaminated by it used phytoremediation works, studying its behavior populations grow naturally soils. We analyzed accumulation translocation parts the plant 14 calculated Health Risk Index value associated with their consumption vegetable. The results obtained mean most soils this estuary unfit human some studied. In conclusion, J. Woods Cd, As, Pb—among other metals—in leaves so should limited free these metals.