Posted on 08/21/2023 9:43:33 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant
Consumer Reports found dangerous heavy metals in chocolate from Hershey's, Theo, Trader Joe's, and other popular brands. Here are the ones that had the most, and some that are safer....
Consumer Reports scientists recently measured the amount of heavy metals in 28 dark chocolate bars. They detected cadmium and lead in all of them....
For 23 of the bars, eating just an ounce a day would put an adult over a level that public health authorities and CR’s experts say may be harmful for at least one of those heavy metals. Five of the bars were above those levels for both cadmium and lead....
Still, you don’t need to swear off chocolate entirely, Akinleye says. He adds that while most of the chocolate bars in CR’s tests had concerning levels of lead, cadmium, or both, five of them were relatively low in both.
(Excerpt) Read more at consumerreports.org ...
These chocolate companies might buy cacao as a commodity, so the heavy metal content could change from batch to batch.
Ghirardelli had two bars among the five "safer" bars, so it is probably a relatively good choice.
A related article was posted last December: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4117429/posts
Is Cadbury’s chocolate really Cadmium Burys you chocolate?
Cadmiumbury
Beat me to it.
Not much of a dark chocolate person, so I’ve never had of the the dark chocolates listed, to my knowledge. Funny how close to half of the chocolate listed are “Organic”.
in before the cadmium bunny...
hehehe
“Cadmium and lead are present in cocoa and chocolate due to [the] soil,” explained Christopher Gindlesperger, senior vice president of public affairs and communications for the National Confectioners Association, in an email to SFGATE. “The products cited in this study are in compliance with strict quality and safety requirements, and the levels provided to us by Consumer Reports testing are well under the limits established by our settlement.”
Gindlesperger added that the bean cleaning process reduces these two metals in chocolate products. However, it's harder to remove cadmium from cocoa because it enters the plant through the roots and deposits it in the center (nibs) of the cocoa bean. On the other hand, lead clings to the outer shells of the beans, making it much easier to remove during the cleaning process, according to a three-year study by the National Confectioners Association completed in 2018.
Heavy metals are now used by the globalists to poison us.
But their weak-mindedness forces them to do it in secret.
At best, they can only let us know in the same old, low-IQ passive aggressive ways. But they never have the courage or the brains to tell us outright.
Also see
https://www.pharmaceutical-technology.com/comment/researchers-association-cadmium-endometriosis/
That would take all the fun out of it for them.
Sounds deeee-licious.
Thanks for posting this! I signed the petition.
I love chocolate, but I guess it’s just milk chocolate from now on.
What it would do is bring them back to crawl on their belly in the dust.
Typical MSM fear-mongering. We see these regular articles on honey, chocolate, apple juice, every few months.
Heavy metals exist naturally in minute amounts in soil. Some places may have more naturally-occurring heavy metals than others.
They are also in chemical forms that render them more inert and less harmful to humans.
For example, years ago - Dr. Oz, when he was making a name for himself after Oprah, engaged in such a PR scam
With great fanfare he announced that many brands of apple juice “contained dangerous arsenic!”
His staff, and his laboratory, didn’t make any distinction between the trace amounts of inorganic arsenic (harmless) and the more dangerous and rare (and usually human-made) inorganic form. Even US FDA regulations distinguish between the two forms.
After getting slammed by the legal departments of companies he slandered, his show never mentioned this “controversy” again.
How about chocolate ground and concocted into powder form, to which milk or water is added, to make a drink:
“N E S T L E S: Nestles Makes the Very Best Chaah-klit.”
Anyone else remembers this ad?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQK-AJKtjB0
I am completely on-board with whatever that takes!
Lily's was safe over a year ago, then was bought by Hershey's. Today's tests show Hershey's is using lead-adulterated cocoa powder now—but at least it is “Fair Trade!” Consumer Reports shows one serving of the 70% Lily's is now 144% of California's daily intake recommendation. It used to be a fraction of that. Cadmium is relatively high, too, but not over such limits.
Dove used to be safer, before it went “Fair Trade,” too. Dove has specific farmers they used to only source through, then apparently threw that away in favor of hurting people through higher cadmium and lead in chocolates. Dove 70% Promises have 112% of California's daily recommendation for cadmium.
Crud on both companies for caring about Fair Trade points over consumer safety.
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