But before you go out and snack on your pennies, check out this website brought to you by Healthworld Online. Although there's little direct nutritional information here about this mineral, Webelements has interesting information you might like to know to understand its chemistry. Included in the site is a general background of the mineral as well as its atomic, elemental, and nuclear properties. The average adult contains between 75 and 150 mg copper and about half of this is contained in the skeleton and the muscles.
Copper is most concentrated in the brain and liver.
Essentiality of copper in humans. The biochemical basis for the essentiality of copper, the adequacy of the dietary copper supply, factors that condition deficiency, and the special conditions of copper nutriture in early infancy are reviewed.