IngredientsSubstance reference

Copper

Minerals EUEFSAUSNIH ODS 6 products in Stacky

What the European Food Safety Authority and the United States National Institutes of Health have published about copper intake, and what the catalogue records. Reference figures and citations only.

Stacky is an organisational tool, not a medical device. It does not provide medical advice, and nothing on this page says what copper does. Talk to a doctor or pharmacist before starting, stopping or changing what you take.

Published intake references

Each figure is one authority’s published value, with the kind of figure and the people it applies to as that authority stated them. Where the EU and the US differ, both are shown and neither is averaged or converted. Only a tolerable upper intake level sets a ceiling. A recommended or adequate intake is context, not a limit.

EUEuropean Union — EFSA

Adequate intake 1.3 mg adult females 18+ EUEFSA
Adequate intake 1.6 mg adult males 18+ EUEFSA
Tolerable upper intake level 5 mg adults 18+, total intake from all sources (SCF, 2003). Separately, in 2023 the EFSA Scientific Committee established an Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI) of 0.07 mg/kg body weight per day for copper, an ADI, not a revised UL. EUEFSA

USUnited States — NIH ODS / IOM

Recommended daily intake (RDA / PRI) 900 µg adults 19+, both sexes USNIH ODS
Tolerable upper intake level 10 mg adults 19+, total intake from all sources (tabulated as 10,000 µg/d) USNIH ODS

To cite a figure, cite the authority’s document linked on its card, and this page as where you read it: stacky-app.com/substances/copper, retrieved 13 November 2026. Every card has its own address: add #eu-ai-2 to the page URL for the first one.

Products in Stacky’s catalogue containing Copper

6 products whose label declares copper, listed by brand and drawn as the app draws them. Amounts are the manufacturer’s printed figures; Stacky has measured nothing and ranks nothing.

How it is recorded

What the app records so it can schedule a dose. None of it is advice.

Forms recorded: Capsule.

Default food note in the app: with food.

Recorded interactions

How Stacky summarises what a named source says about copper taken alongside another substance: absorption and nutrient status only. The category and the summary are Stacky’s words; each row links to the source, and the source’s own wording governs. A row without one is not published, and neither is one whose source description names a disease or clinical condition: 1 such row for Copper stays in the app. None of these says whether a combination is good or bad.

Stacky’s categorySummary, in Stacky’s wordsSource
Documented relationship with Vitamin C Reduced copper levels are listed among the reported effects of high vitamin C intakes.
Scope the source gave: high intakes of vitamin C.
NIH ODS
Checked 6 Aug 2026
Documented relationship with Zinc Zinc at 50 mg a day or more, taken over weeks, interferes with copper absorption and can lower copper status. Reductions in a marker of copper status have been reported at intakes of about 60 mg a day for up to 10 weeks.
Scope the source gave: 50 mg a day or more, taken over a period of weeks.
NIH ODS
Checked 6 Aug 2026

Indexed studies

Stacky has 5 papers indexed against copper, and none of them is published here. A study reaches this page only if its own title names Copper and does not name a disease or clinical condition. None of the 5 passes that rule. They remain in the app. How this list is built →

About this page

Stacky is a supplement tracking app. It renders what you take and what published sources say about it; it does not tell you what to take. Every figure on this page names the authority that published it and links to that authority’s own page.

Not on this page: a dose of our own, a grade, a verdict on whether copper works, or any statement that it treats, prevents or improves a condition. How these pages are built →

Figures are read from the authorities’ published tables and can go out of date when those tables are revised. If one here is wrong, tell us at support@stacky-app.com and we will check it against the source.