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Lead and Cadmium Could Be in Your Dark Chocolate
Consumer Reports ^ | December 15, 2022 | Kevin Loria

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 ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: cadmium; chocolate; darkchocolate; food; hersheys; lead
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To: UnwashedPeasant

I don’t care much for chocolate at all, but I cannot stand dark chocolate.


21 posted on 08/21/2023 10:24:34 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

An ounce a day of chocolate?

Have they invented an mRNA vaccine agains cadmium and lead yet? How often do I need a booster?


22 posted on 08/21/2023 10:25:56 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (We are proles, they are nobility.)
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To: UnwashedPeasant
Its in the soil, rain fall, volcanic eruptions, meteor showers. Can't get it out, if you like dark chocolate, Cacoa plants suck it up.

otoh, Im more concerned with soy licithin, i look for cocoa butter in my chocolate.

https://www.thechocolatejournalist.com/blog/soy-lecithin-chocolate

23 posted on 08/21/2023 10:36:39 AM PDT by Ikeon (I'm a mirror , what you see in me is actually a refection of yourself. )
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To: combat_boots
Researchers find potential association between cadmium and endometriosis

GlobalData Healthcare
Potential causes of endometriosis include genetics and malfunctions of the immune system.

The headline and the sub headline seem to contradict
24 posted on 08/21/2023 10:44:02 AM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: higgmeister

There are a number of articles on the topic….


25 posted on 08/21/2023 10:45:37 AM PDT by combat_boots
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To: Ikeon

For years, I took granulate soy lecithin, to get a great form of necessary choline.

Lately, we use sunflower lecithin.

I have zero problems with soy lecithin, and concerns around soy left in it, are few. I don’t care if it is a waste product, if it’s safe and as good effects.

Whether I’d like the texture with chocolate—that’s another thing.


26 posted on 08/21/2023 10:46:44 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: combat_boots

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/07/230724122643.htm


27 posted on 08/21/2023 10:47:31 AM PDT by combat_boots
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To: UnwashedPeasant
Here I come to save the day!

In the case of heavy metal poisoning (greater than 200 µg L−1 of lead or cadmium within the blood), chelation therapy can be proposed to help decrease these high blood concentrations by forcing the elimination of the metals, which is most commonly performed with intravenous treatments of edetate calcium disodium (CaNa2EDTA) as well as 2,3-dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) and sodium 2,3-dimercaptopropane 1-sulfonate (DMPS)20,27.

Combating lead and cadmium exposure with an orally administered chitosan-based chelating polymer

What else can I say, I really enjoyed those Mighty Mouse cartoons.

28 posted on 08/21/2023 11:13:09 AM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: higgmeister

Otherwise known as this too shall pass.


29 posted on 08/21/2023 11:13:59 AM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

30 posted on 08/21/2023 11:31:03 AM PDT by xp38
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To: UnwashedPeasant

I’ll risk it


31 posted on 08/21/2023 11:48:37 AM PDT by SomeCallMeTim
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To: UnwashedPeasant

Thanks for posting. I eat Ghirardelli 86%.

Are the metals naturally occurring?


32 posted on 08/21/2023 1:34:48 PM PDT by Rusty0604 (Despthaerately looking for new conspiracy theories as all the old ones have come true)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

Thanks.


33 posted on 08/21/2023 1:35:35 PM PDT by Rusty0604 (Despthaerately looking for new conspiracy theories as all the old ones have come true)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

“ Lead and Cadmium Could Be in Your Dark Chocolate”

On the plus side, you’ll feel more full after eating dark chocolate.


34 posted on 08/21/2023 2:20:35 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: higgmeister

I loved polymer. Especially Arnold Polymer.


35 posted on 08/21/2023 3:07:51 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: Rusty0604
"Are the metals naturally occurring?"

Probably from contaminated soil and irrigation water in third-world countries. The standards are low.

36 posted on 08/21/2023 3:42:38 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

“You got your Cadmium in my Chocolate!”

“Well you got your Chocolate in my Cadmium!”


37 posted on 08/21/2023 3:44:32 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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