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Lead and Cadmium Could Be in Your Dark Chocolate - Consumer Reports (www.consumerreports.org)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For all the chocolate lovers out there, careful because effectively all dark chocolates have lead and cadmium in them. Lead is especially dangerous and some brands have alarmingly high amounts.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

And they are sooooo tasty! I like to sprinkle microplastics on top

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Microplastics on your microplastics? Living luxuriously, eh?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

In this economy?!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Microplastics are the new teflon. The new secret seasoning

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ugh, what a crap article. I don't want the history of chocolate and children and blah blah blah; where's the info?

Comments here seem to suggest it's just all lead and cadmium everywhere. Cool. Unfortunate, considering I love dark chocolate. Just another reason to say FML I guess. Presumably this won't actually change anything, either. That's great; we can't have any corporate profits affected by having to provide even remotely clean and safe snacks/foods/candies/whatever.

I hate this world so much.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I have to disagree, this was decent journalism. There was almost nothing on the history of chocolate so I don't understand your complaint there. And they have to briefly explain the dangers of heavy metal exposure at the beginning before discussing the levels; skipping that would be irresponsible.

But as a reader I already know most of that info, and it was easy to scroll right past to the actual product list. They show the measured levels with graphs and percentages, which to me was very clear and not just "lead and cadmium everywhere". They even highlight the products with safer levels and wrap up by covering ways the industry can solve the issue. I don't know what else you could ask for.