Substance reference

Copper

Minerals EFSANIH ODS / IOM-DRI (NASEM) 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.

European Union — EFSA

Adequate intake 1.3 mg adult females 18+ EFSA →
Adequate intake 1.6 mg adult males 18+ EFSA →
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. EFSA →

United States — NIH ODS / IOM

Recommended daily intake (RDA / PRI) 900 mcg adults 19+, both sexes NIH ODS / IOM-DRI (NASEM) →
Tolerable upper intake level 10 mg adults 19+, total intake from all sources (tabulated as 10,000 ug/d) NIH ODS / IOM-DRI (NASEM) →

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.

Food: the app records copper as taken with food.

Recorded interactions

What a named source says about copper taken alongside another substance: absorption and nutrient status only. Each row links to its source. 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.

RelationshipWhat the source saysSource
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.