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“Lab-grown chocolate is coming to shelves in 2027. Oreo, Cadbury and Toblerone are already funding the Israeli biotech producing it because a lab is cheaper than a farm”
X.com ^ | March 8, 2026 | Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes

Posted on 03/09/2026 10:14:53 AM PDT by ransomnote

Wall Street Apes
@WallStreetApes 

I verified this and it’s true

“Lab-grown chocolate is coming to shelves in 2027. Oreo, Cadbury and Toblerone are already funding the Israeli biotech producing it because a lab is cheaper than a farm”

“Cadbury has been quietly replacing your chocolate — This dairy milk isn't legal chocolate in 27 countries, the cocoa butter was replaced with vegetable fat, a cheap blend of 6 industrial oils. What remains is diluted with polyglycerol — Soon even that gets replaced, you'll be eating cells grown in a pharmaceutical tank”

Cadbury Dairy Milk (in the UK and many markets) has included vegetable fats (like palm and shea) alongside cocoa butter for years. UK/EU regulations allow up to 5% non-cocoa vegetable fats in chocolate if it meets minimum cocoa solids (20%) and other standards.

In America standards are much lower

- For milk chocolate specifically: Only 10% chocolate liquor, 12% milk solids, and 3.39% milk fat are required

“Exposer flagged lead in cadmium traces with an ultra processing warning”

 

March 8, 2026



TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: chocolate; food; getlostwhinytroll; getsnewsfromtwitter; lab
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1 posted on 03/09/2026 10:14:53 AM PDT by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote

No. Just plain no.


2 posted on 03/09/2026 10:18:57 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: ransomnote
because a lab is cheaper than a farm

Uh.... no. It isn't.

3 posted on 03/09/2026 10:21:46 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (The tree accused of killed Sonny Bono was planted.)
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To: ransomnote

a cheap blend of 6 industrial oils.

Nothing says yum like industrial oil .

Pass


4 posted on 03/09/2026 10:27:56 AM PDT by OldHarbor
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To: ransomnote

Good thing I gave up eating chocolate long ago ,LOL


5 posted on 03/09/2026 10:42:24 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: ransomnote

If it tastes like chocolate, does me no harm and I can afford it, I can live with it.

But it’s all three or nada.


6 posted on 03/09/2026 10:43:12 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH! )
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To: ransomnote

This should be the required label:

Cadbury Lab-Grown “Chocolate”
Made From Six Delicious Industrial Oils

Yum!


7 posted on 03/09/2026 10:55:00 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (God save the United States!)
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To: ransomnote

Who are the alternative chocolate companies who don’t do that?

 
Grok
 
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Try bean-to-bar and ethical brands like Askinosie, Taza, Theo Chocolate, Divine, Tony's Chocolonely, and Whittaker's. They use real cocoa butter (no veg fats/palm substitutes), minimal ingredients, and fair/direct trade sourcing—avoiding Mondelēz-style shortcuts or lab-grown funding. Always check labels for "cocoa butter" listed first.

8 posted on 03/09/2026 11:10:55 AM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

Hard NOPE!


9 posted on 03/09/2026 11:18:28 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: ransomnote

Lab-grown chocolate consists of real cocoa cells cultured in bioreactors, grown in a nutrient-rich broth of sugar, minerals, and vitamins. It simulates the taste of traditional chocolate without environmental, ethical, or heavy metal contamination issues. It is produced via cellular agriculture rather than traditional tree-harvesting.

The Guardian


10 posted on 03/09/2026 11:29:11 AM PDT by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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To: ransomnote

“ Try bean-to-bar and ethical brands”

Ethical is euphemism for leftist woke.


11 posted on 03/09/2026 11:29:43 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ransomnote

Fake news. Fake meat. Fake people. Why not fake chocolate? Pretty soon everything will be inauthentic, and manufactured.


12 posted on 03/09/2026 11:29:53 AM PDT by Antihero101607
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To: ransomnote

Please don’t tell Tucker or Candass about this.


13 posted on 03/09/2026 11:34:20 AM PDT by montag813
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To: ransomnote

a blend of 6 oils....

not going to say anything....

except.....

Thank you Jesus for helping me stop eating chocolate. Feminization helped with the lust. Veg oil helped with the fries. covid with just about everything else especially experts and science and government. You’re punishing us so bad....for our sin.


14 posted on 03/09/2026 12:20:51 PM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: ransomnote

It will not taste the same without the lead and cadmium.


15 posted on 03/09/2026 1:34:05 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

I already hate chocolate.

Can I hate this new junk more?

Definitely.


16 posted on 03/09/2026 2:49:28 PM PDT by Veto! (Trump is Superman)
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To: ransomnote
"This dairy milk isn't legal chocolate in 27 countries, the cocoa butter was replaced with vegetable fat, a cheap blend of 6 industrial oils."

Is this a confection or Rislone?
17 posted on 03/09/2026 2:49:53 PM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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