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Lead in Your Chocolate: Here are the Worst Brands
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Find out the chocolate brands with highest & lowest heavy metal contamination
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References & Additional Resources:
Our chocolate video covering best products:
https://youtu.be/4dan0C33ypo
CR investigations:
https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/lead-and-cadmium-in-dark-chocolate-a8480295550/
https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/a-third-of-chocolate-products-are-high-in-heavy-metals-a4844566398/
As you sow (100s of brands):
https://www.asyousow.org/environmental-health/toxic-enforcement/toxic-chocolate
2 studies:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11321977/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0963996924004307
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0:00 A shocking investigation
0:59 Dose
2:29 Worst offenders
3:22 A silver lining
3:58 Cadmium excess
4:37 Lead excess
5:51 Safest
6:38 Worst
6:53 Milk choc, cocoa powder etc
8:10 More safe brands
9:18 Origin
10:28 Bottomline