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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsSay, just received a box of dark chocolate candies from Harry & David. Should I eat them??
Did anyone read that article about dark chocolate having metals in them?? Or am I making a big deal about it?
https://www.greenmatters.com/news/heavy-metals-found-in-dark-chocolate
Ocelot II
(117,886 posts)and only of the listed brands. There's a reference to one ounce per day as not good, but one ounce per day for how long? They don't say. Per the linked article: "Fortunately, theres no reason to renounce your taste for dark chocolate, Tunde Akinleye, a food safety researcher who led the CR report, asserts. CR recommends choosing your dark chocolates wisely perhaps that means eating ones that were found to have lower levels of heavy metals."
electric_blue68
(15,987 posts)far as I can tell!
mahatmakanejeeves
(58,897 posts)Haggard Celine
(16,929 posts)tanyev
(43,244 posts)For many reasons.
Dysfunctional
(452 posts)I worked 3rd shift. Once a month I stayed late to attend a meeting for 6 people. At the first meeting, I attended the boss brought in a box of donut holes. I ate so many that from then on he brought in 2 boxes and put 1 of them in front of me. Everyone laughed, but by the end of the meeting, I had finished them. That was nothing to the time I had to wait at the dealer while my car was having an oil change and there were free Krispy Creme donuts.
tanyev
(43,244 posts)I do pretty well keeping that stuff out of my house, but my co-workers are constantly bringing in goodies to share and leaving them out in the breakroom. I usually succumb.
Tree Lady
(11,791 posts)Once a taste of sugar, its a drug for me. I asked hubby to buy me some ginger thin cookies thinking not so bad. Had whole box gone in one day.
electric_blue68
(15,987 posts)Tetrachloride
(8,122 posts)Lars39
(26,158 posts)than it took to type the question!
DBoon
(22,651 posts)If so, I'd be worried about being attacked by a landshark
ProfessorGAC
(66,959 posts)First, the levels are still very low, just not low enough.
Second, the issues with lead & cadmium are cumulative. As long as you don't make a habit of wolfing down box after box each day, your system can still (very slowly) eliminate tiny amounts of metals.
Third, it's the richer, luxuriant dark chocolotes that are of the most concern because cocoa solids are substantially higher. That's why, for instance, the Mounds bar didn't show up on the concern list. Much cheaper chocolate. I don't the brand you mentioned, so I can't say what silo it fits in to.
But, one box of chocolate isn't going to hurt you.
electric_blue68
(15,987 posts)Lindt, occasional smaller producer brands.
Lindt was high.
However I think (spelling?!) 🙄😄 Ghariheldi is rather lower, and I do like theirs, too. 👍
doc03
(35,938 posts)cancer.
Me.
(35,454 posts)The Hershey Co. is being sued for allegedly failing to disclose the presence of lead and cadmium in several of its dark chocolate bars.
The proposed class action, brought by Christopher Lazazzaro of New York, comes two weeks after Consumer Reports sounded the alarm on dangerous heavy metals in dark chocolate bars from manufactures including Lindt, Ghirardelli and Hershey's.
For three of Hershey's dark chocolate bars, Consumer Reports said, just one ounce violates California's maximum allowable dose levels (MADL) for lead or cadmium: Hershey's Special Dark Mildly Sweet Chocolate, Lily's Extra Dark Chocolate 70% Cocoa, and Lily's Extreme Dark Chocolate 85% Cocoa.
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/30/1146254933/hersheys-lawsuit-dark-chocolate-heavy-metals-lead
sl8
(15,456 posts)very informative
bamagal62
(3,430 posts)a couple of Trader Joes products. But, not all of f them.
whistler162
(11,155 posts)can you trust them not to add metal to any chocolate they give to you?
William Seger
(10,852 posts)I don't believe it's had
NNadir
(33,722 posts)...a terrifying representation on a subject they have no business raising.
I suspect pumping gasoline is more dangerous from a health perspective.