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Brownie mixes, chocolate chips, hot cocoa, and more contained concerning levels of lead or cadmium. Here's how to eat the treats safely. With the holiday season approaching, many of us will be...
Researchers found many chocolate products across the U.S. contained higher-than-recommended levels of toxic heavy metals lead and cadmium, but the industry says the products are safe to eat.
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The December 19 Consumer Reports headline, Lead and Cadmium Could be in Your Dark Chocolate, has chocoholics everywhere in great pain. But a closer look at the article shows that you may not have to give up your guilty pleasure.
There are ways to mitigate the risks of accumulating dangerous levels of heavy metals in your body from dark chocolate, even for pregnant people and children. Heres how.
- The metal adheres to the beans surface, mixing into the chocolate as its processed. Some products including Walmarts Great Value Milk Chocolate Flavor Hot Cocoa Mix, Droste Cacao Powder and Targets Good & Gather Semi-Sweet Mini Chocolate Chips had lead levels that could be more than three times the standard recommended dose per day.
Based on the results of our testing, which found 285 of the 469 chocolate products tested contain lead and/or cadmium above Californias MADLs, we filed legal notices with over 20 companies, including Trader Joes, Hersheys, Mondelz, Lindt, Whole Foods, Kroger, Godiva, Sees Candies, Mars, Theo Chocolate, Equal Exchange, Ghirardelli, and Chocolove, for failing to warn consumers that their chocolate products contain cadmium or lead, or both.
- However, further research is necessary and chocolate can also have some negative health effects.
