Lead and Cadmium in Chocolate
An Avoidable Problem the Industry is Not Doing Enough About

Some of us are old enough to remember the “Hey!  You got your peanut butter in my chocolate…” ads:

“HEY!  You got your chocolate in my lead!”

“NO!  YOU got your lead in my CHOCOLATE!”

To sum up this issue that I’ve been following since 2015:

Lab tests are showing there is both lead and cadmium in almost ALL chocolate out there.  There is no safe amount of lead or cadmium that can be consumed.

Lead can affect the brain, especially in children, cadmium may be tied to both lung and bladder problems including possible cancer.

The problem seems to be in part due to the geographical locations of where chocolate is grown.  Chocolate harvested in Africa seems to have less an issue than that harvested in South America.

The problem seems to relate to the soil more than the processing, as originally thought, especially when it comes to cadmium.  With cadmium, there is too much in the soil.  Ideas are being experimented with including adding lime or zinc to both topsoil and roots to try to reduce the uptake of cadmium into the plant and into the end product, our cocoa and chocolate.

The techniques are not proving effective because the root structures are too delicate to handle being interfered with, and the topsoil treatments are just not effective enough.

And for the record, lead is friggin everywhere, all over the place.  “Ubiquitous” as everyone’s favorite new catch word of the 2000’s would say, thrown around (overly) randomly to help establish one’s superior vocabulary talents with which to impress friends and romantic prospects.

Then we have our California “Prop” warnings that establish ultra-low tolerance levels of heavy metals, and therefore put warning labels on products letting everyone know, basically, that they’re poisoning themselves if they eat this.

To top this off, there is not nearly enough testing being done, nor attention being paid to on the whole, to this issue.  A dang TON of chocolate is consumed by people of all ages.  A lawsuit forced a bunch of chocolate producers to pay more attention, but all that happened was a settlement that resulted in, to this day, STILL very little being done about it.

At least not nearly enough being done, that’s for sure.

Several years ago a few trustworthy organizations did tests of a bunch of chocolates to determine lead/cadmium levels.  They seemed to discover some commercial chocolates that had very low levels, or even undetectable levels, of these heavy metals.

BUT…as they listed those chocolates, within a few more years, new tests revealed that those chocolates no longer had the same low levels.

It’s as if the entirety of the heavy metal chocolate industry has nothing truly clean to offer us any longer.

Since I absolutely love chocolate and have continued to eat it, (it’s one of the few weaknesses I have), I use chelation tactics to grab the heavy metals and pull them out of my body.  Due to the political climate today, I can no longer openly discuss these methods, but do cover them in the private correspondence plans of my program available at FacelessFatLoss.com

I encourage you to write to ANY chocolate-producing company…it doesn’t matter which, since they’re ALL tainted unless they prove otherwise…and say “Hey!  You got your lead in my chocolate!”

Let them know it’s absolutely unacceptable.  Reference the children and their exposure to lead.  That should snap them out of their complacency.