For all the chocolate lovers out there, careful because effectively all dark chocolates have lead and cadmium in them. Lead is especially dangerous and some brands have alarmingly high amounts.

  • livus@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Like you say, it all has it.

    I don’t think you can tell going forward based on brand. This testing is really like a snapshot of the particular cacao harvests being used by each brand for that particular batch.

    Cacao is sourced from multiple plantations/regions.

    Even the Rainforest Alliance brands seem to have these metals, so it looks like quality control won’t save it either.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah pretty much every batch is going to have wildly different numbers but given that they think lead content is from dust I think the lower lead manufacturer may just be the ones washing their beans more aggressively