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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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[–] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm not sure that first article is the best source. It's really just a blog post and boils down to "other plants we eat (healthy vegetables) contain heavy metals too and you'll always consume more of those than cacao".

That's not a very strong argument IMO, especially considering lead toxicity is cumulative over time. Lowering its levels here seems to mostly be a matter of washing the cacao or keeping manufacturing dust off of it in the first place, which doesn't sound super arduous or expensive.

The second article seems like good coverage of a legit study though 👍