8. Oils
While butter is a good source of cobalt and a delicious substitute instead of oil for frying, oil itself isn’t a slouch when it comes to cobalt. Oil and butter both have about the same amount of cobalt at 0.018 µg where oil excels is in the lower amounts of saturated fats, especially when using vegetable oil. It also has generally fewer calories than butter, so if you’re after the cobalt content of butter but not the weight gain, try using vegetable oil instead.
9. Sugar
Sugar is one of those things that would either make you smile or terrify you when you hear it by itself. On one hand, sugar is singularly responsible for sweetening every dessert and drink, even if you don’t necessarily put table sugar in them. On the other, it is also one of the main causes of diabetes. But either way, sugar can be a good source of cobalt, as it has a concentration of 0.021µg. And it’s not just table sugar – sugar derivatives like syrup, malt, caramel, and fructose all carry the same cobalt concentration.
