Chocolate: Consuming Massive Quantities Daily For A Year With No Issues

[GorillaHead]

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[mosaic01]

Is cadmium and arsenic specifically found in cocoa powder? Or in all cocoa products like chocolate bars, cocoa butter etc.?

Chocolate has a lot of cadmium, lead and aluminium.

A good strategy is to only buy cocoa from Africa. The soil there is not contaminated with cadmium as much as the Latin American cocoa.

"Average cadmium concentrations reported in the literature vary from 0.02 to 0.51 mg/kg for African beans, while average concentrations in Central and South American cacao are reported to range from 0.10 to 12.0 mg/kg."

https://cgspace.cgiar.org/bitstream/handle/10568/116963/PB1_ClimaLoca_Cadium_Cacao.pdf?sequence=3

I suspect African cocoa is also low in other dangerous metals, some areas in Latin America are just extremely dense in all kinds of metals and the cocoa plant absorbs that stuff.

 

[GorillaHead]

Chocolate has a lot of cadmium, lead and aluminium.

A good strategy is to only buy cocoa from Africa. The soil there is not contaminated with cadmium as much as the Southern American cocoa.

"Average cadmium concentrations reported in the literature vary from 0.02 to 0.51 mg/kg for African beans, while average concentrations in Central and South American cacao are reported to range from 0.10 to 12.0 mg/kg."

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Dark chocolate does not have a lot of cadmium. But caocao powder does. According to a google search

 

[mosaic01]

Dark chocolate does not have a lot of cadmium. But caocao powder does. According to a google search

It's the same product, so has the same contaminants.

The worst cadmium chocolates are the organic premium brands, as they buy exclusively from "premium" regions in Latin America. Probably regions with a lot of nutrient-dense earth.

Lead and Cadmium Could Be in Your Dark Chocolate - Consumer Reports

Consumer Reports tested 28 dark chocolate bars and found cadmium and lead in all of them. Here's how to limit your heavy metal exposure.

www.consumerreports.org

The worst cadmium offender writes about their product:

"Our chocolate is sourced from single-origin, organic, fine aroma Criollo cacao beans, grown in the foothills of the Andes Mountains leading down to the Amazon Rainforest."

Single-origin is the worst. The mainstream brands mix cocoa from hundreds of different farms and thus the toxin-level is averaged to an acceptable levels.

 

[GorillaHead]

It's the same product, so has the same contaminants.

The worst cadmium chocolates are the organic premium brands, as they buy exclusively from "premium" regions in Latin America. Probably regions with a lot of nutrient-dense earth.

Lead and Cadmium Could Be in Your Dark Chocolate - Consumer Reports

Consumer Reports tested 28 dark chocolate bars and found cadmium and lead in all of them. Here's how to limit your heavy metal exposure.

www.consumerreports.org

So maybe that’s the acne link ?

 

[mosaic01]

Dark chocolate does not have a lot of cadmium. But caocao powder does. According to a google search

Forgot to add: The cadmium and other metals are not in the cocoa butter, they are in the non-fat parts, so in the whole beans and in the powder (cocoa solids), which means in all chocolates.

 

[mosaic01]

So maybe that’s the acne link ?

I don't know.

 

[TurboTime]

Any ideas on the mechanism?

Yes, as I posted a few posts above you, it could be fluoride or bromide from fumigation. You could try organic cacao powder and see if that triggers the acne. Most cocoa beans are fumigated with sulfuryl fluoride or methyl bromide. Look up halogenoderma, fluoroderma, and bromoderma for examples of what halogens can do to your skin as the body pushes them out.

Copper actually binds to fluoride and reduces acne. This could be why heavy metals such as cadmium are linked to acne. Because copper is needed to detox heavy metals so fluoride using up that copper leaves less to deal with heavy metals, leaving more heavy metals. Higher levels of copper in the blood in those cases only represents the body using copper, not total stores in the body. There was a study on heart disease patients and the ones that died more had higher levels of copper in the blood but lower levels in the tissues.

 

[GorillaHead]

Yes, as I posted a few posts above you, it could be fluoride or bromide from fumigation. You could try organic cacao powder and see if that triggers the acne. Most cocoa beans are fumigated with sulfuryl fluoride or methyl bromide. Look up halogenoderma, fluoroderma, and bromoderma for examples of what halogens can do to your skin as the body pushes them out.

Copper actually binds to fluoride and reduces acne. This could be why heavy metals such as cadmium are linked to acne. Because copper is needed to detox heavy metals so fluoride using up that copper leaves less to deal with heavy metals, leaving more heavy metals. Higher levels of copper in the blood in those cases only represents the body using copper, not total stores in the body. There was a study on heart disease patients and the ones that died more had higher levels of copper in the blood but lower levels in the tissues.

I am using organic caocao and still acne

 

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“How Lead & Cadmium Get Into Chocolate
As mentioned above, cadmium and lead contamination are not the result of chocolate manufacturing processes. Each metal gets into the finished product through different means–and therefore the solutions to reduce each toxic metal differ.

Cadmium is taken up from the soil by the roots of cacao trees and transported into the beans. (This is similar to the way in which various heavy metals end up in rice and root vegetables, an issue that has also received a lot of attention in recent years.)”

Heavy Metals in Chocolate: How to Eat This Superfood Safely

Rich in polyphenols, the best dark chocolate deserves its “superfood” designation. However, many of us are worried about the levels of certain heavy metals.

gimmethegoodstuff.org

 

[Rinse & rePeat]

the higher the fat or cacao content of chocolate is the higher the affinity for toxins to bind to the fat thats the reason why i completely stopped eating dark chocolate 85 % +, because its full of cadmium, aluminium, arsenic and not forget to mention MOSH and MOAH . bye bye lovely chocolate

I stopped eating my lovely chocolate for the same and only reason.