Oh, I also take a quality EVOO every morning and evening, and I often times eat a couple ounces from a 90% cocoa chocolate bar (which, by necessity, has relatively little sugar), as well as eat sardines (in EVOO) several times per week for the omega-3s that reduce inflammation, plus severely limit my intake of foods that cause inflammation. Like I said above, it is a multi prong approach. I know I’m not going to live forever, but I’d like to get the most out of this life as possible. Cacao is only one of the tools available, though very tasty one (me being an old chocaholic), so it’s easy to use.
There were several cacao powders also tested that scored okay with heavy metals from older reviews.
You need just over three teaspoons of “Terrasoul Superfoods Cacao Powder - 100% Cacao” to get 200 mg of flananols.
Volupta Cacao Powder needed 2 tablespoons to get 200 mg of flavanols.