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[โ€“] 29 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Not to defend the US on pretty much anything, but there's basically tiers of chocolate. Low quality mass produced chocolate (hershey's, kit kat, etc) is almost always waxy, overly sweet, and sometimes has that weird butyric acid additive. Mid tier is like your Ghirardelli: popular nationally but more expensive than your low tier chocolate, still often quite sweet but you can at least get dark chocolate. High tier is usually regional artisan chocolate. I like Theo in the PNW but I think that's going national lately.

All of this is NOT a recommendation to buy these chocolates of course. Go get Tony's Chocolonely if you can find it.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 1 year ago

    But the common "cheap" chocolate like Hersheys is compared to common similarly priced chocolate in Europe. You can find much cheaper chocolate in Europe that is just as bad or worse than Hersheys, but you expect it for that price.

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  • [โ€“] 13 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I was all about Tony's until it came out it's high in lead and cadmium. Ghirardelli is the only easy to buy brand for me that isn't high in lead or cadmium.

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    There's an update that came out at the start of this year. You can find it here.

    Long story short - it's as safe as any other dark chocolate on the market.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 1 year ago

    It's not as safe as other chocolates that have significantly less lead and cadmium. Furthermore, in some cases the contamination comes from the processing machinery, not the soil, so it completely under their control to immediately eliminate it. Yet they didn't say they planned to address the problem. They could also begin the process of eliminating cadmium by replanting on uncontaminated soil.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Do you have a source for this?

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  • [โ€“] 12 points 1 year ago

    https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/lead-and-cadmium-in-dark-chocolate-a8480295550/

    Annoyingly, instead of saying they were going to address the problem, Tony's response was "it's in the soil" and CR used "California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA)" standards. Which ignores that their chocolate is still higher in lead than some other brands.

    https://tonyschocolonely.com/blogs/other/a-small-update-on-health-and-safety-and-heavy-metals

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