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Honestly, if you looked into it, there are high levels of cadmium and lead in ALL chocolate. Yep, your Mars bar is killing you.
Buy the super expensive stuff, and it's lower, but it's still there.
It's a problem of having this shit grown primarily in Africa, but also other things.
So depressing
Just chelate from time to time and fast.
Honestly we're talking about supporting the girl scouts. I warn them that they're poison and I give them a donation. We haven't provided a better alternative like a functioning society, so until more get on board we're stuck with what we got. Buy the cookies and throw them in the trash in front of them so you make an impact. But bruh, we all know what's poison and what isn't. And it has nothing to with Africa and everything to do with the adversary dumbing us to death.
Where is virtually all of the world's cocao grown?
Who cares? Where does the poison come from. The ground? The water? Thr processing? Where? How? Who?
You don't think it's important to ask if poison is in your food, where the food comes from?
Lead comes from our dark brethren leaving the cacao on the side of the road, not putting it in a warehouse, for example, and pollution landing on it.
Even in South America, this wouldn't happen.
It's an old story mon ami: https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/lead-and-cadmium-in-dark-chocolate-a8480295550/
Among the major findings Lead and Cadmium have very different contamination patterns and sources. Cadmium (Cd) is taken up by the roots of the cacao trees and deposited in parts of the fruits. Mitigating this contamination includes changing the Ph of the soil, switching out tree stocks, reducing metals contamination from fertilizers and other inputs including water.
Lead has a more surprising origin. Lead contamination occurs from lead contamination at various stages of cacao production including the handling stage when cacao beans are removed from the pods, which are covered in very sticky mucilage, and fermented and dried often on the ground or on the side of the road. The origins of lead are generally human caused and may arise from the burning of leaded gasoline and diesel fuel, from leaded paint, the burning of plastics and/or garbage, the operation of smelters and other industrial processes, use of fertilizers, and emissions from coal-fired power plants, among others. Lead moves through air and gets mixed with dust particles ending up on the ground adhering to the sticky beans. These lead particles are primarily introduced during the harvesting, drying, and fermenting processes, and remain on the chocolate beans during transport to manufacturers, where they can contaminate chocolate batches during other manufacturing steps, including from deshelling and other handling processes.
The lead is 3 times the limit for drinking water. Certainly higher than it should be, but it doesn't sound astonishingly toxic since the EPA is pretty cautious in its limits for most things (except regarding Fluoride).
Edit: Actually 42ppb would be 42 micrograms per kg of product. If you had high absorption of that you could get toxicity by binge-ing on them since you only need a few micro grams per dL for toxic symptoms.
Though absorption is the big question. Metals like Aluminum can be naturally occurring in food and have low absorption. That may or may not be the case for lead.