I wish he had gone over the brands. Most consumers are going to be stuck with Lindt, Ghirardelli and Hershey in the grocery store. Lindt says right on the package its treated with alkali but all the 'best chocolate' websites are recommending it for health benefits. I get Ghirardelli 92% but have no idea the butter/liquor ratio. His website won't tell you unless you become a member but I'm not jumping through that many hoops for information. He can give the information on this video. That's why I spent the time watching it.

We grow cacao at our farm in Ecuador. I cannot speak on flavonols but our cacao is low in metals because we are not near a volcano with soil mixed with ash. Buyers as should investigate where to a cacao farmer is located. We do not Dutch the cacao but simply offer nibs or the raw beans in the open market.

Lead and cadmium are naturally found in soil and aretaken up by the cacao plants. Valrhona cocoa powder from France was found to be low in cadmium and Lead according to Consumer Reports.

I’m so exhausted. Every time you think ur doing something healthier…there’s always some info to shut it down. Is there anything that’s safe to consume?

There are tonnes of small organic dark chocolate producers on the market nowadays. This report is 3 yrs old, and not sure how relevant this report is now. The brands you show in the background are not known by me at all, and it appears your testing was not done on very many brands, and you kept it localised. Cadmium is not the only risky metal; lead is also a risk in dark chocolates. But I get the key feature to look for when seeking healthier cocoa, thank you.

Actually you must be a member to see all that in the website!

I’d probably become a member if you updated this research every year.

Cocoa is already processed, but cacao is non-processed raw cacao beans or cacao nibs.

Which is the best to use

There's a bit more to the story...an activist group called "As You Sow" is behind Proposition 65 the STRICT law in California, that Consumer Reports used...NOT the FDA laws. "California's limitations set by Proposition 65 are some of the MOST protective in the country, according to Consumer Reports. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration offers more flexible recommendations for daily lead intake at 2.2 micrograms for children and 8.8 micrograms for women of childbearing age."

I'm happy to purchase the full report - information about the safety of chocolate products is extremely valuable. I'm concerned, however, as to whether one can rely on the consistency of these results. Considering all the variables involved, from the time of harvesting of beans, to the distribution and selection of (raw or semi-processed) materials by cocoa processors, to the production of final retail products, it seems that batch to batch consistency could potentially vary greatly. Not sure what to make of this and wondering if any manufacturers (a) have testing protocols for cadmium/lead levels and (b) disclose this information to consumers to provide assurance based on specific production lots.

The levels of heavy metals such as lead and cadmium could fluctuate for the same product from year to year.

Hi, thanks for your video. It would be really helpful to have on your reviews some brands outside the US. I live in China and this would be really helpful. Thank you.

Thank you so much for the work that you do. The web site information is so valuable and helpful.

So why is the cadmium concentration so high?

Since some chocolate products contain relatively high cadmium levels, I've been wondering about occasionally using carob powder as a substitute in recipes for cacao powder. Do you have any insights into whether carob powder might similarly have elevated levels of any heavy metals?

Omg I’ve been having cocao powder like 4 tablespoons a day for 2 years as a replacement for coffee

Extremely useful! Thank you

Does cocoa butter have cadmium?

I love you doc, thank you for everything you do. ❤

I buy the Lindt 100% cocoa. I would like to know what is the flavanols and cadmium content in it.

I'm curious. Do you know how these products become contaminated with cadmium?

Is the lead and cadmium something that is naturally occurring in the plant or is this something that occurs during processing?

Does choclate nesquik have cadmium

Hi.. Which “ Cacao Powder “ has In the less Cadmium Contamination, Meaning Which Cacao Powder Brand Is Best Please??

What is Dutched? What is done to the cacao that makes it dutched?

Could you tell me what happened to Aduna Super Cacao? You approved it in the previous round of tests, but it's not even listed in the latest tests. Is it still (comparatively) low in cadmium?

Can you explain where the cadmium is coming from in the chocolate? Is it from the earth it is grown from? Is it just a natural by product in cocoa pods? Is it in the process of making chocolate? Please give details?

Just trying, unsuccessfully so far, to find out whether or not Lindt 95% dark chocolate bars (I eat 1/2 bar daily) are safe to consume?

I’m very concerned because I’ve been having dark chocolate everyday for years after lunch how can I find out how much lead I have inside me?

Is every soil on the planet contaminated with lead and cadmium? there must be one cocoa plant that is less contaminated right?

is lindt dark chocolate 70% contain large amount of Cadmium???

What are the actual mcg levels of cadmium and lead in these products per serving? thank you!

5:10 how much chocolate is "one cup of Coco"?

Memo: the darker the cocoa powder the more its flavonoids were extracted (dutched)

lol Did you predict the report that got filed around 10 or 11 months ago? Who was the first one who figured out about the excessive cadmium content and how??

Memo: Alkalinisierung der Schokolade reduziert die Flavonoiden

How many TBS cocoa powder is safe per day? I was taking 6 TBS = 30 g. Per day

Seems UNFAIR to make us pay to get the much needed information. I'll just quit cacao!

For me I’m just gonna quit eating it all together, everything‘s too conflicting it’s not even worth the chance, I did notice when I started eating it with my pistachios that I couldn’t hardly pee anymore I couldn’t figure out what was wrong I guess I know now It’s not worth the benefits for what it could do to you, and then I found out that vegetables and plants has cyanide in them and different poisons as their natural defense so animals wouldn’t eat them so I guess we can’t eat anything why don’t we just do like the Jetsons on the cartoon growing up just passed you gonna have to drink water though and take vitamins don’t eat any food there’s something wrong with every food there is according to our surveys you’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t so you better well have faith in the Lord Jesus I sure would pay a subscription to these people, too many people lie how do we know if they’re telling us the truth, could they could be owned by big Pharma and you know how safe they are GMO synthetic prescription drugs they have all the side effects and now they’re trying to tell us the natural stuff are organic so is organic chocolate bad to, I say I don’t believe none of this I am true I just ask God to bless my food and take the bed out make it nutrition for my body I’ve been doing it for years, so the vitamins I take are made from real food sprouts , But they’ll probably come up with something saying sprouts are not good for you too who knows it’s a shame that everybody lies you can’t trust anybody when I found out about what they were doing to olive oil in America, well I did a lot of research on the olive oil myself and I know Spanish olive oil is the best that the extra-virgin olive oil in Spain you have to get the kind uses only the certain type olive and they only use the same olive in all their olive oil they don’t use different batches of olives I didn’t see that on consumer report, what I did was call my family in Spain my relatives in Italy and my relatives in Greece and they told me the Spanish olive oil was the best Second was Greece and third was Italy which really surprised me, but they live there they told me and I would rather blame my relatives, in America is olive oil‘s mix with other oils and other extra-virgin oils, shame on our government but you know how it goes big Pharma is behind everything Kind of makes me wonder why everybody wants to move to America well by family in Mexico, don’t use Monsanto or GMO’s most countries across the pond don’t use GMO’s or Monsanto they know how to get rid of pests naturally the jokes on us

So is organic fair trade a better choice?

don't eat chocolate.