Whether you live in a city where clean, accessible, and fresh groundwater is available, or a rural area where access to water is a daily obstacle, water is the basis of life everywhere. As of today, the industrial impacts of manufacturing factories in the areas of wood preservation, chrome plating, and electrical equipment are increasingly detrimental to water sources. In particular, the drought in California has made the need for clean groundwater even more crucial. Groundwater is constantly polluted by harsh chemicals, such as hexavalent chromium. Hexavalent chromium has proven to be a highly toxic metal even at low concentrations and is an active pollutant of ground water. Chromium is responsible for a multitude of health issues: lung and gastrointestinal cancers, liver damage, kidney damage, etc. Ideally, my project would also provide alternative processes for water purification in rural areas while at the same time eliminating food waste. Although previous research has been conducted towards the adsorption of certain foods, a comparison of the different food groups is necessary to analyze the components of biosorbents that contribute to more effective adsorption of metal ions. The objective of my project is to compare three different groups of biosorbents and identify if a certain food group adsorbs more effectively than others, and I predicted that tuber vegetables would adsorb the best. To prepare the food peels, the peels were sun-dried and blended using a household blender to achieve a fine powder. Different dilutions of Cr water were combined with the food powder, and centrifugation was used to separate the biosorbent from the water afterwards. Spectrophotometer analyzation was applied to determine the remaining amounts of Cr after adsorption. The amount of food powder and dilutions of Cr water were kept constant throughout the experiment, while the types of food powder were varied. My results did not reflect a considerate amount of Cr removal after adsorption using food peels; however, inconsistensies within my data was due to procedural factors. This led to a change in my procedure, and more promising results were produced. Further investigation with this procedure will allow me to better understand the processes of biosoprtion and better compare the food groups. In the future, I hope to research the role of functional groups in biosorption, as well as figure out a possible method for application of biomass adsorption in more rural areas.