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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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[–] bilb@lem.monster 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

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

[–] xuxebiko@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] relevantnanana@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Look at OP flexing on us.

[–] ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Microplastics on your microplastics? Living luxuriously, eh?

[–] LillianVS@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Microplastics are the new teflon. The new secret seasoning

[–] reflex@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I like to sprinkle microplastics on top

FLAVOR ENHANCER.

[–] livus@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Like you say, it all has it.

I don't think you can tell going forward based on brand. This testing is really like a snapshot of the particular cacao harvests being used by each brand for that particular batch.

Cacao is sourced from multiple plantations/regions.

Even the Rainforest Alliance brands seem to have these metals, so it looks like quality control won't save it either.

[–] bittabet@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah pretty much every batch is going to have wildly different numbers but given that they think lead content is from dust I think the lower lead manufacturer may just be the ones washing their beans more aggressively

[–] livus@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

That's a good point. And lead would be good to avoid!

[–] RiikkaTheIcePrincess@kbin.social 3 points 1 year 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.

[–] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] RiikkaTheIcePrincess@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

sigh I'm having a shitty, rough time lately. Turns out it was all neatly hidden behind some scripts that hadn't loaded and I didn't notice some reasonably subtle signs of "we can't display images or text without scripts" so I assumed it was all buried somewhere or just wasn't actually presented (in favour of "trust us, we found lots of DANGER in all dark chocolate").

[–] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Aw, okay. Well I'm glad you figured it out! Hope you're doing better soon.

[–] Chadus_Maximus@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

Finally, my hatred for dark chocolate is justified. My body was protecting me all along!

[–] I_Miss_Daniel@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

So what's the charging regime? 2.45v per square or 1.7v?

[–] Kerrigor@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

So I just have to alternate between the ones high in lead, and the ones high in cadmium, to balance it out!

[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

First they take away the lead paint, now they want to get rid of lead chocolate.

Where else can I eat dangerous metals?

Guess ill move into mercury filled tuna

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