Note- chocolate from West Africa has much less cadmium and you have to Block cadmium absorbtion by having enough of fiber, calcium, zink, iron and magnesium and according to this you can choose one Dark chocolate Montezumas Dark chocolate with 100 % Cocoa and 0 gr - 0,06 microgr cadmium per gram - 3 teaspoon of Cocoa powder can be beneficial for older people - the. Itochondria Work better and they get more mitochondria … choose Cocoa powder with high flavonoids and low cadmium e.g. Good & Gather unsweetened cacao powder….
@@illegaldestroyercheaper than a lot of other drugs. Neil Barnard calls chocolate a pharmacy because of 4 drugs/chemicals that alter us in some way! I have lost 2 teeth for rotting (back teeth and I am almost 70) from chocolate (acid pH will eat teeth). Chocolate may be better than pop/soda for teeth and bones!? My other addiction has been pop/soda!!! Darn!
She said Good & Gather brand is sold at Target. But Target is a leftist, ultra-woke company. Buying anything from them supports the further destruction of civilization.
Appreciate your sharing, Dr Liu. Could we have a list of what chocolates and cocoa powders to buy/eat? Your video kinda zoomed pass everything like a bullet train.
Under the description she has a time stamp list. You will find the photos and tables at the time stamps for all of the data... a great benefit for her viewers. Thank you Dr. Liu
I just came upon u and I hv been studying cocoa powder. Right on time. May U continue educating the masses- 1 person saved frm poor health is worth it.
Am 76 yo and have been having cacao drink since childhood. Did not have or have health issues. No maintenance pills, sleeps good and still work my farm. This reminds me of the assault on coconuts, oil and all.
I just bought a bunch of different cocos and cacao thinking dark chocolate's good for me. I forgot all about The other issues that weren't positive. Lord have mercy now what?.
I agree 100%, fortunately here in Switzerland we have a small manufacturing who started to produce chocolate all new way with cold extraction so all the flavonol is kept. It is called Oro de Cacao and it is organic.
@@HealthyimmunedocI just saw a video about Bryan Johnson claiming he produces quality chocolate with less or minimum heavy metals and higher flavonoids! I don’t know the truth about his claim !!! I wish there was one reliable source that can be trusted
I am Nicaraguan and it is in our heritage to drink cacao in powdery form, in fact we used to make it. I have no problems healthwise. The best Cacao is Central American.
This lady is trying to pull a cat's fur in a chicken's egg. She is promoting the brand she has mentioned. My favourite drink is cocoa everyday since my childhood. I am now 85. I have no issues and still very active.
I read the Consumer Reports article some months ago, and ended up buying 1 of the low lead/cadmium dark chocolate bars-Ghirardelli 72% Cacao Intense Dark Chocolate. Very good.😋 Curiously, it seems to reduce my cravings for chocolate. Now I’m wondering which cocoa powder to use for baking. The CR article didn’t test all chocolate products, so I hope the research continues.🌺
Unfortunately, Ghirardelli adds milk solids to all of their products. Thus, not only not vegan friendly (my concern), but it has the negative impact of dairy
@@cobylyons4439 Not all their products… I just checked my 72% Cacao Intense Dark Chocolate bar: “Unsweetened chocolate, cane sugar, cocoa butter, vanilla extract, soy lecithin.”🤷♀️
@cobylyons4439- Ghirardelli's 72% bars are vegan. Here are the ingredients: unsweetened chocolate, cane sugar, cocoa butter, vanilla extract, soy lecithin.
Montezumas are the best bars to buy. She was vague & didn't recommend anything that had the least chems in powder. The Dutch one had mor flavanoids but then she says not to buy it. Kinda confusing with info & no clarity
Can you make another video and be clear with a list of a few at least of powders that we can buy that has the least chemicals. It was kind of quick, vague and with no clarity as to what we should buy that has the least amount of chemicals
@@ALady4ever I looked up the recipes online and the allulose is not really that healthy from I can read, more like fructose. Just saying. Please look up and make your own opinion! Good Luck!
Good information, but very discouraging. I have tried to choose dark chocolate (cacao, not cocoa) without sugar, or low glycemic (like coconut sugar), and eat sparingly. I have hypoglycemia, and want to avoid diabetes or pre diabetes. I wasn't considering heavy metals like lead and cadmium. And, the info is valuable, but I hope you consider slowing down the pace of delivery; too much, too fast. A slight pause between new facts would help. But we can pause and replay.
Another Major problem with raw cacao powder, is oxalates, I recently developed kidney problems (never had any health problems previous) I included unsweetened cacao powder for the polyphenols, and its purported stimulation of stem cells, Almond milk, nuts, beet root, and cacao among other high oxalate foods, will mess your kidneys up eventually, too bad, I really liked that in my smoothies. now taking mushroom powder for its health benefits instead.
1. Have you ever made a video evaluating Protein Bars? Would appreciate your input on protein bars. 2. Is there a way to read text of your videos - I ADORE chocolate but couldn’t make a list of the healthy chocolates. Thank you. 3. Thanks for your videos. They are wonderful fact-based information.
I use raw vegan Cacao powder for my raw recipes. For an occasional treat already prepared, we like Dr Bronners vegan chocolate bars. He uses coconut sugar. It is very low in heavy metals. Here in California. It has no prop 65 warning label.
I understand that Navitas, which was high in cadmium in the 2022 Consumer Reports, changed, because of that report, and now sources cacao out of Africa, and other videos state this, so it would be great if you do an update, to show which are the good and which are the bad cacaos in terms of cadmium, lead and flavanols. Thank you.
I could not see your charts, can you add a link to view them? I Really appreciate your research and sharing this important info since I have developed OA in my knees and neck. I'm over 60 but started eating dark chocolate for heart health.
If you go to the description area under the video and then click on the chapters below the description, she pauses on each chart. If you can't find a chart she showed, you can watch the video, pause on that chart, and then take a snapshot.
@@BrianHallmond I don’t remember what happened in my case. I’m ashamed to say, I probably cooked up a lie to explain the missing money. I never should’ve been trusted with candy. 😂
So…the cocoa powder I use is from Peru and the Dominican Republic and is Dutch processed. Time to switch brands or skip the powder altogether. Thanks for opening my mind to the realities of cocoa powder and chocolate.
@@jf1890Thanks for your reply. That is what I am using now too, Nativa cacao powder. I have to go to a health food store to get it but it is worth the trip.
My home is in Bali and they have their own Trees however I have no clue what is the level of Lead or Cardium in that regard. Mix one teaspoon of cacao powder in my morning fruit smoothie and eat 30 gr.95% dark chocolate without sugar daily . I'm 75 years old and have not encountered any problems so far! I do this for 5 years.
Doc: You mentioned that chocolate is contaminated during processing. Do you have recommendations on how the processing of chocolate could reduce lead contamination?
Amazing work Doctor. You are so far ahead of the herd of many other soc med health influencers. Who...uniformly tout the benefits of dark chocolate without nary a mention of heavy metal contamination!
Hi! Good news for us cacao lovers! I found a common sense article on the Soma Cacao website addressing hype stirred up by an unscientific Consumer Reports story that she may be referencing here. Their customers had voiced concern as well. I am NOT Affiliated in any way, but found it as I searched for more info. I am enjoying my cacao as I’m writing this.
I'm scared going to the supermarket .We are learning all the time to get better choices but it looks like that quality of food has gone down over time..It should be institution which can randomly check quality of our food and chase up trickers ..
I drink Navitas Organic 100% Cacao powder, sugar-free and unsweetened. One tablespoon mixed in a tall glass of cold water. I love the bitter taste. It's also very low in carbohydrates, ketogenic friendly. I drink it every day.
You say the Bensdorp Kakao brand has the most flavonols but in the next breath you advise us to stay away from Dutch processed cocoa powders because they do not have flavonols. Bensdorp's brand is all dutched so how can it contain any flavonols? This is contradictory, please clarify.
It seems that the more information we collect on the foods we eat, our choices become less and less until nothing is safe to eat. What about organic chocolate?
that is about right... and we are responsible for our own health as a whole, as we are irresponsible for how we treat our waste products and have polluted the air, soil, water...hence what you do to the environment you do to yourself...
I used Terra Soul Cacao powder and got the lot test, and it was low to almost no heavy metals. It could depend on the lot number (product set that is shipped) ask them for the lot number.
Current Navitas cadmium level is 0.4 mcg/g and lead is 0.01 mcg/g. Along with 124mg of flavanols per serving. Is this the best value cacao powder currently?
So interesting! What about carob? Does it have any polyphenols, cadmium or lead?...I am in south America and I love my cacao nibs and powders, now I am wondering, how to figure out if they are heavy on the metals, or if any brands here have even been tested. Doubt my local cacao farm ever tested anything. Maybe I can only test my own blood to see 😂....also, if you made a separate video for just the lists of brands that are better/worse for chocolate, also bread, and any other good/worse brand comparisons, that would be super usefull!!! 30 sec is not long enough!!! You already did so much work figuring it out, amazing 🎉 would make it soo so easy to go one by one w the breakdown Comparison. Or an alphabet ranking (a,b,c,deep, tier) type of video would also be great and probably algorithm friendly. 😊 please please. And another video for cacao powder brand comparisons!!
Very interesting! Until recently, here in the UK I was regularly buying a 1kg tub of Raw Organic Cacao powder on Amazon, but then I heard about this heavy metal contamination, and that stopped me dead in my tracks. Presumably, there is no published info on a product like that?
@@Healthyimmunedoc Thankyou. Another brand of Organic Cacao Powder is advertised as ‘EU Organic’ and sourced from Sierra Leone. You mentioned the EU has stringent limits on heavy metal content, so labelled as above is it likely it meets safe levels?
Scary story: Some of my powdered pigments I use in my traditional egg tempera art work is cadmium. 90 grams of light cadmium red and 120 grams cadmium yellow, and others. Very permanent colors, long term.
16:28 The top brand there on polyphenols was also CR's best ranked source overall, including for contaminants, and it seems like that deserved a mention. It had "77 percent of CR's lead limit and 17 percent of the cadmium limit."
Consumer Reports use California's maximum allowable dose level (MADL) for lead (0.5 micrograms) and cadmium (4.1mcg). Note that California's cadmium limit is almost 7x higher than EU's cadmium limit for cocoa powder (0.6 mcg)😬
@@tiararoxeanne1318 Incorrect. There is a great deal of misinformation that is spread via social media, unfortunately. That cadmium standard is for cocoa in a sweetened / blended product, so it is diluted. For products equal to or greater than 50% cacao solids, the EU standard is 0.8mg/kg, so again this is for some kind of a blended product with high-solids / dark. For non-blended product, the standard is a maximum of 0.8ppm. The product mentioned here easily meets those standards.
Some of my relatives basically LIVE on real, organic cacao on DAILY basis!!! And none of them have ANY health issues! In fact, they are the healthiest of all of us! :) What I’ve seen is, they prep it plain and simple: with water, some cinnamon, some ground ginger, sometimes they add a bit of saffron and piece of clove and that’s it. Oh, and I’ve seen one of them use milk instead of water. I’m not sure what type of milk, but I know it’s organic. And mind you, these are very “healthy-diet” oriented ppl, they follow scheduled annual checkups and all. I’m sure if any of them had elevated amount of metals, they would’ve mentioned, ‘cause all they talk about is healthy diet! 😊
You have given me pause for concern. I occasionally enjoy 90% cocoa Lindt chocolate bars, but only have 1 square per day when I have the bar. I use cocoa powder when I make sweet potato nice cream. Time for me to switch to carob powder and forgo the chocolate bar.
THANK YOU so much for this informative video! I've been drinking chocolate milk made from organic cocoa powder from South America everyday! Now I know to replace that habit!
Thank you for sharing your information about our health. Can I ask. That you slow your speed down while explaining. Put up charts that are full screen and readable And give us a conclusion as to what items are safe at the end. The title says its not what you think. After watching the video, I still dont know what to think. Thank you
I have noticed a trend on u tube where creator videos are now made with the dialog being spoken very, very fast and then the spaces between breaths are edited out. I many times have to slow the speed down to listen comfortably.
Woah…….i am truly a chocoholic!! In the last 15 years since having children I have always bought the “really” good organic chocolate…..now I’m just in a daze…😅 We have slolightly different products in Canada what about ‘Camino’ I did not see that on your list. I always try to buy green and blacks. I was in greneda in the Carribean and saw where it was harvested. Good and clean!!! But now all this info…..my head is spinning!!
Can you review Blueprint Bryan Johnson Non Dairy Cocoa Powder - 7.5% Flavanols, 100% Pure Cocoa, Low Fat Unsweetened Cocoa, Undutched, Keto Friendly, Great for Baking & Cooking, Tested for Heavy Metals (12 Ounces)?
Well from my understanding on studying zeolite clinoptliolite, you can reduce or eliminate both cadmium, lead and other heavy metals there's a lot of research on this and there's also articles with research on the national institute of health websites. So check that out. Zeolite has also been used at Chernobyl add Fukushima to contain an attract radiation
What would stop the producers from buying cacao from another farm and still have the labeling the same? So the toxic amounts could change and you would never know it?
I make my own chocolate for its antioxidants and health benefits. I mix organic cocoa powder with organic extra virgin coconut oil and sweeten it to the level I want with raw honey I buy from a local supplier. I eat 1 or 2 spoonfuls a day and love the taste.
I just drank a huge glass of chocolate milk thought for sure I was safe since it’s organic cacao powder organic milk and raw local honey.. but I guess not .
Not all latim America. In Brazil the max cadmium accepted is 0,3 mg per caiu kg. The cacau ion Brazil has Is an excellent quality approved even from French specialist !
Really appreciate your Advice and you explain everything so well ,i just brought 100% cacao dark chocolate, only for the health benefits, I only eat i chunk a week as dont really like the taste 😮
I would share this video with my family but there is no detailed info written to help in the shopping of good chocolate/cacao. The video zooms with not much in detailed brands. I guess we need a consumer reports subscription as that reference was mentioned several times. Great unshareable info is no info😢
Thank you for this video - my teenage son likes to make chocolate milk and I have been looking for a replacement since I saw the consumer report on lead in chocolate (though I didn’t see in that report that they test nesquick or Ovaltine). I will get that brand from target and make our own mix. Except that the Good and Gather chocolate chips are high in lead and that powder chart you were showing was referencing cadmium. Wonder if I can find out the lead levels in their cocoa powder?
I was also on the quest of finding chocolate without toomuch heavy metals but I didn't succeed. The problem is that under the same brand sometimes there is not much cadmium and sometimes there is. So basically I just stopped buying Cadbury and brands from the list. The word 'organic' is usually helpful
I bought Trader Joe’s chocolate as a gift awhile back, including that little colorful package and I tried some and it just tasted bad so I was embarrassed that I even gave it to anybody. It’s interesting to know the Trader Joe’s chocolate is awful. Theo on the other hand is a chocolate manufacturer here in Seattle and it claimed to be the only organic chocolate manufacturer in the United States. They used to have tours where you saw them processing Coco on old equipment. They bought small equipment, small batches, from beans to Little truffles. It was really wonderful and interesting though that Theo‘s chocolate has a sort of interesting flavor. One of the cool things about Theo is that they do retain their cocoa butter rather than sell it off for more money and replace it with less than which a lot of chocolate manufacturers do. So it’s got an interesting flavor Theo and I’m disappointed about the high levels.
Bottom line:
Low Cadmium Chocolate Bars: 9:42
Chocolate bars Low in Lead: 10:30
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Note- chocolate from West Africa has much less cadmium and you have to Block cadmium absorbtion by having enough of fiber, calcium, zink, iron and magnesium and according to this you can choose one Dark chocolate Montezumas Dark chocolate with 100 % Cocoa and 0 gr - 0,06 microgr cadmium per gram - 3 teaspoon of Cocoa powder can be beneficial for older people - the. Itochondria Work better and they get more mitochondria … choose Cocoa powder with high flavonoids and low cadmium e.g. Good & Gather unsweetened cacao powder….
Thank you @lisengel2498 for typing this out! 😊🙏🏾💯💐
Brilliant summary of all the key points of the video. Thanks!
Montezumas Dark chocolate is too expensive.
@@illegaldestroyercheaper than a lot of other drugs. Neil Barnard calls chocolate a pharmacy because of 4 drugs/chemicals that alter us in some way! I have lost 2 teeth for rotting (back teeth and I am almost 70) from chocolate (acid pH will eat teeth). Chocolate may be better than pop/soda for teeth and bones!? My other addiction has been pop/soda!!! Darn!
She said Good & Gather brand is sold at Target. But Target is a leftist, ultra-woke company. Buying anything from them supports the further destruction of civilization.
Appreciate your sharing, Dr Liu. Could we have a list of what chocolates and cocoa powders to buy/eat? Your video kinda zoomed pass everything like a bullet train.
Lol😂 bullet train. ❤
First the science, then the product. Don't you think it's better?
For sure!
I would like a list too. Even though I took screenshots and reviewed a few parts, it’s still a blur.
Under the description she has a time stamp list. You will find the photos and tables at the time stamps for all of the data... a great benefit for her viewers. Thank you Dr. Liu
I just came upon u and I hv been studying cocoa powder. Right on time. May U continue educating the masses- 1 person saved frm poor health is worth it.
Am 76 yo and have been having cacao drink since childhood. Did not have or have health issues. No maintenance pills, sleeps good and still work my farm. This reminds me of the assault on coconuts, oil and all.
Are you mostly a carnivore?
@@ianstuart5660carnivore is gay
I eat tons of chocolate because I intentionally want to deprive everyone else of it.
LOL. Me too.
Thank you for your sacrifice..
I love that and so caring at same time really
Good man.😂
I've often wondered the things that we love the most is coffee chocolate and yet so many people get cancer and I'm thinking makes you wonder ya know
this is depressing. i need a drink.
LOL
Alcohol is kind of toxic too.
😅
I just bought a bunch of different cocos and cacao thinking dark chocolate's good for me. I forgot all about The other issues that weren't positive. Lord have mercy now what?.
Me too. A drink. What a downer. Could you leave your visuals up longer?
I agree 100%, fortunately here in Switzerland we have a small manufacturing who started to produce chocolate all new way with cold extraction so all the flavonol is kept. It is called Oro de Cacao and it is organic.
Do you know if they test their chocolate for heavy metals?
@@Danie8798 organic can still have heavy metal.
@@HealthyimmunedocI just saw a video about Bryan Johnson claiming he produces quality chocolate with less or minimum heavy metals and higher flavonoids! I don’t know the truth about his claim !!! I wish there was one reliable source that can be trusted
@@Healthyimmunedochave you been able to remove the contaminants from your system ?
I am Nicaraguan and it is in our heritage to drink cacao in powdery form, in fact we used to make it. I have no problems healthwise. The best Cacao is Central American.
This lady is trying to pull a cat's fur in a chicken's egg. She is promoting the brand she has mentioned. My favourite drink is cocoa everyday since my childhood. I am now 85. I have no issues and still very active.
I'm living in philippines and I have a farm and have one cacao tree! I'm a cacao lover! There is a difference between Cacao and Cocoa!
Yes, plus you are doubling your StemCells in a month if you use daily!
I like the way you give us the full story of things and not just a basic one sided point of view.
Me too😊
You are a bundle of joy.
The lists don't stay up long enough to read. This may be easy to pause and read on a computer, but is much harder on a phone.
I screenshot them rewind screenshot them rewind and then enlarge them and screenshot them again so I can read them ✅
I read the Consumer Reports article some months ago, and ended up buying 1 of the low lead/cadmium dark chocolate bars-Ghirardelli 72% Cacao Intense Dark Chocolate. Very good.😋 Curiously, it seems to reduce my cravings for chocolate. Now I’m wondering which cocoa powder to use for baking. The CR article didn’t test all chocolate products, so I hope the research continues.🌺
Unfortunately, Ghirardelli adds milk solids to all of their products. Thus, not only not vegan friendly (my concern), but it has the negative impact of dairy
@@cobylyons4439 I have no problem digesting dairy (lacto-ovo-vegetarian), and at 71 am very healthy. Everyone’s body is different.
@@cobylyons4439 Not all their products… I just checked my 72% Cacao Intense Dark Chocolate bar: “Unsweetened chocolate, cane sugar, cocoa butter, vanilla extract, soy lecithin.”🤷♀️
Thank you for this.
@cobylyons4439- Ghirardelli's 72% bars are vegan. Here are the ingredients: unsweetened chocolate, cane sugar, cocoa butter, vanilla extract, soy lecithin.
“I sold chocolate candy bars in high school… my biggest customer was me” 🤣🤣🤣 I think we all have this experience! 🤣
I love this channel. So educational and she is easy to listen to. Thank you, Dr. Liu!
After listening carefully, I still dont know what chocolate bars are the healthiest to consume.
Exactly
Montezumas are the best bars to buy. She was vague & didn't recommend anything that had the least chems in powder. The Dutch one had mor flavanoids but then she says not to buy it. Kinda confusing with info & no clarity
Can you make another video and be clear with a list of a few at least of powders that we can buy that has the least chemicals. It was kind of quick, vague and with no clarity as to what we should buy that has the least amount of chemicals
I make my own chocolate using cocoa powder, coconut oil and allulose
P.S. Chocolates in the US taste horrible
So do I ! And I make sure the cocoa powder is from a good source, and NOT Dutch processed which removes some of the polyphenols, other nutrients.
Nice. Can you share any of your recipes?
@@ALady4ever I looked up the recipes online and the allulose is not really that healthy from I can read, more like fructose. Just saying. Please look up and make your own opinion! Good Luck!
@cattracks7128 allulose is a very good substitute. Probably the best 0 glycemic sugar substitute you can use.
so glad I found you. the information is wonderful. so many topics!
You're just a bundle of joy.
😂
Good information, but very discouraging. I have tried to choose dark chocolate (cacao, not cocoa) without sugar, or low glycemic (like coconut sugar), and eat sparingly. I have hypoglycemia, and want to avoid diabetes or pre diabetes. I wasn't considering heavy metals like lead and cadmium.
And, the info is valuable, but I hope you consider slowing down the pace of delivery; too much, too fast. A slight pause between new facts would help. But we can pause and replay.
Another Major problem with raw cacao powder, is oxalates, I recently developed kidney problems (never had any health problems previous) I included unsweetened cacao powder for the polyphenols, and its purported stimulation of stem cells, Almond milk, nuts, beet root, and cacao among other high oxalate foods, will mess your kidneys up eventually, too bad, I really liked that in my smoothies. now taking mushroom powder for its health benefits instead.
I use the gear on the screen and slow down the speed for some videos.
Hershey’s, Nestle, etc. don’t make chocolate, despite what the label says-it’s confectionary.
Correct!!
Absolutely!
I love confectionery
Excellent info. First time viewer and subscribe.
I need to watch every one of your videos at least twice to absorb all the valuable information! I wish you are my doctor ❤
1. Have you ever made a video evaluating Protein Bars?
Would appreciate your input on protein bars.
2. Is there a way to read text of your videos - I ADORE chocolate but couldn’t make a list of the healthy chocolates. Thank you.
3. Thanks for your videos. They are wonderful fact-based information.
To make a list of the healthy chocolates, you can pause the video.
I use raw vegan Cacao powder for my raw recipes. For an occasional treat already prepared, we like Dr Bronners vegan chocolate bars. He uses coconut sugar. It is very low in heavy metals. Here in California. It has no prop 65 warning label.
Love Dr. B’s chocolate!!! 🍫
Which brand of raw cacao powder do you use, please? I've been using Kiva brand, purchased on Amazon.
this was fantastic - finally someone giving a full comprehensive explanation - i learned so much. thankyou ! I will watch this several times.
I understand that Navitas, which was high in cadmium in the 2022 Consumer Reports, changed, because of that report, and now sources cacao out of Africa, and other videos state this, so it would be great if you do an update, to show which are the good and which are the bad cacaos in terms of cadmium, lead and flavanols. Thank you.
I could not see your charts, can you add a link to view them? I Really appreciate your research and sharing this important info since I have developed OA in my knees and neck. I'm over 60 but started eating dark chocolate for heart health.
In case you don't know, the cog icon in the upper right corner has playback speed options
If you go to the description area under the video and then click on the chapters below the description, she pauses on each chart. If you can't find a chart she showed, you can watch the video, pause on that chart, and then take a snapshot.
Who else binged on their own fundraising chocolates? ✋🏼
what do they do when you do that dont they force parrents to pay for it or they just get mad?
@@NightmareRex6 Yes, you have to pay for them. I don’t remember how I solved that dilemma.
Omgggg I remember this 😂😂 we were poor but I actually remember my Mum being okay with it and paying. Thanks for the happy memory trigger. 😊❤
@@BrianHallmond I don’t remember what happened in my case. I’m ashamed to say, I probably cooked up a lie to explain the missing money. I never should’ve been trusted with candy. 😂
I'm so proud of you sharing this information!!
So…the cocoa powder I use is from Peru and the Dominican Republic and is Dutch processed. Time to switch brands or skip the powder altogether. Thanks for opening my mind to the realities of cocoa powder and chocolate.
Navitas Cacao powder is my favorite and on her good list with high flavonols.
@@jf1890yaaayyy! I buy this!
@@jf1890Thanks for your reply. That is what I am using now too, Nativa cacao powder. I have to go to a health food store to get it but it is worth the trip.
Pause the video and take screen shots. Great way to save info if not included in the description.
My home is in Bali and they have their own Trees however I have no clue what is the level of Lead or Cardium in that regard. Mix one teaspoon of cacao powder in my morning fruit smoothie and eat 30 gr.95% dark chocolate without sugar daily . I'm 75 years old and have not encountered any problems so far! I do this for 5 years.
Doc: You mentioned that chocolate is contaminated during processing. Do you have recommendations on how the processing of chocolate could reduce lead contamination?
Amazing work Doctor. You are so far ahead of the herd of many other soc med health influencers. Who...uniformly tout the benefits of dark chocolate without nary a mention of heavy metal contamination!
Need the list, the video goes so fast, it is kinda of frustrating
In case you don't know, the cog icon in the upper right corner has playback speed options
@@evianevans292 Sure, but I don't understand why she didn't just put a link in her description to the list?
Hi! Good news for us cacao lovers! I found a common sense article on the Soma Cacao website addressing hype stirred up by an unscientific Consumer Reports story that she may be referencing here. Their customers had voiced concern as well. I am NOT Affiliated in any way, but found it as I searched for more info. I am enjoying my cacao as I’m writing this.
I'm scared going to the supermarket .We are learning all the time to get better choices but it looks like that quality of food has gone down over time..It should be institution which can randomly check quality of our food and chase up trickers ..
Hahaha like te FDA😂
@@sheilahtaylor3005 more important than FDA because it will prevent from chronic diseases...
I drink Navitas Organic 100% Cacao powder, sugar-free and unsweetened. One tablespoon mixed in a tall glass of cold water. I love the bitter taste. It's also very low in carbohydrates, ketogenic friendly. I drink it every day.
You say the Bensdorp Kakao brand has the most flavonols but in the next breath you advise us to stay away from Dutch processed cocoa powders because they do not have flavonols. Bensdorp's brand is all dutched so how can it contain any flavonols? This is contradictory, please clarify.
It seems that the more information we collect on the foods we eat, our choices become less and less until nothing is safe to eat.
What about organic chocolate?
that is about right... and we are responsible for our own health as a whole, as we are irresponsible for how we treat our waste products and have polluted the air, soil, water...hence what you do to the environment you do to yourself...
What about using organic cacao powder to make hot chocolate instead of using cocoa powder?
I used Terra Soul Cacao powder and got the lot test, and it was low to almost no heavy metals. It could depend on the lot number (product set that is shipped) ask them for the lot number.
Is it good taste?
9:62 Lindt is also on the cadmium table near to the bottom, 10:30 low lead brands 16:29
Current Navitas cadmium level is 0.4 mcg/g and lead is 0.01 mcg/g. Along with 124mg of flavanols per serving. Is this the best value cacao powder currently?
So interesting! What about carob? Does it have any polyphenols, cadmium or lead?...I am in south America and I love my cacao nibs and powders, now I am wondering, how to figure out if they are heavy on the metals, or if any brands here have even been tested. Doubt my local cacao farm ever tested anything. Maybe I can only test my own blood to see 😂....also, if you made a separate video for just the lists of brands that are better/worse for chocolate, also bread, and any other good/worse brand comparisons, that would be super usefull!!! 30 sec is not long enough!!! You already did so much work figuring it out, amazing 🎉 would make it soo so easy to go one by one w the breakdown Comparison. Or an alphabet ranking (a,b,c,deep, tier) type of video would also be great and probably algorithm friendly. 😊 please please. And another video for cacao powder brand comparisons!!
Thanks doc, very useful!
Hope you might consider a video on heavy metal detox; a complicated, controversial subject.
Wow! truly thanks for this info.
Very interesting!
Until recently, here in the UK I was regularly buying a 1kg tub of Raw Organic Cacao powder on Amazon, but then I heard about this heavy metal contamination, and that stopped me dead in my tracks.
Presumably, there is no published info on a product like that?
Consumer labs, consumer reports or ask the company to send them their own testing
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Thankyou.
Another brand of Organic Cacao Powder is advertised as ‘EU Organic’ and sourced from Sierra Leone.
You mentioned the EU has stringent limits on heavy metal content, so labelled as above is it likely it meets safe levels?
Scary story:
Some of my powdered pigments I use in my traditional egg tempera art work is cadmium. 90 grams of light cadmium red and 120 grams cadmium yellow, and others. Very permanent colors, long term.
16:28 The top brand there on polyphenols was also CR's best ranked source overall, including for contaminants, and it seems like that deserved a mention. It had "77 percent of CR's lead limit and 17 percent of the cadmium limit."
Consumer Reports use California's maximum allowable dose level (MADL) for lead (0.5 micrograms) and cadmium (4.1mcg).
Note that California's cadmium limit is almost 7x higher than EU's cadmium limit for cocoa powder (0.6 mcg)😬
@@tiararoxeanne1318 Incorrect. There is a great deal of misinformation that is spread via social media, unfortunately. That cadmium standard is for cocoa in a sweetened / blended product, so it is diluted. For products equal to or greater than 50% cacao solids, the EU standard is 0.8mg/kg, so again this is for some kind of a blended product with high-solids / dark. For non-blended product, the standard is a maximum of 0.8ppm. The product mentioned here easily meets those standards.
@@tiararoxeanne1318 I replied but it appears to have been deleted or ghosted. The EU standard for non-blended (100% product or beans) is 0.8 ppm.
Ok so living kills you!
With a little tweak suggedted in your video, i can get the benefit of chocolate and reduce poisonous cadmium and lead. Thank you so very much!
White choc is loaded with sugar.
Some of my relatives basically LIVE on real, organic cacao on DAILY basis!!! And none of them have ANY health issues! In fact, they are the healthiest of all of us! :) What I’ve seen is, they prep it plain and simple: with water, some cinnamon, some ground ginger, sometimes they add a bit of saffron and piece of clove and that’s it. Oh, and I’ve seen one of them use milk instead of water. I’m not sure what type of milk, but I know it’s organic. And mind you, these are very “healthy-diet” oriented ppl, they follow scheduled annual checkups and all. I’m sure if any of them had elevated amount of metals, they would’ve mentioned, ‘cause all they talk about is healthy diet! 😊
Interesting to note that cacao is also high in oxalates, and that calcium ALSO helps block oxalate absorption when taken together.
Love your channel ❤
Thank you, great information.
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You have given me pause for concern. I occasionally enjoy 90% cocoa Lindt chocolate bars, but only have 1 square per day when I have the bar. I use cocoa powder when I make sweet potato nice cream. Time for me to switch to carob powder and forgo the chocolate bar.
THANK YOU so much for this informative video! I've been drinking chocolate milk made from organic cocoa powder from South America everyday! Now I know to replace that habit!
Such a great presentation
Thank you for sharing your information about our health.
Can I ask. That you slow your speed down while explaining.
Put up charts that are full screen and readable
And give us a conclusion as to what items are safe at the end.
The title says its not what you think. After watching the video, I still dont know what to think.
Thank you
Joshuakeegwell2896, thank you. Your suggestions are very good directives. Dr. please follow so I can actually absorb better. Lol, Liz, PhD therapist
slow down your speed mode in settings
very educational. Thank you!
How do we heal if we have consumed cadmium and lead from some of these chocolate brands?
EDTA and other chelators
@@hoppy1970 hmm never heard of edta thank you
Thank you so much for this video.
Excellent work!!
Hav subscribed. Thank you Aldo shared with son and lifelong friend
I can't get the info down, and I can't read the picture attachment cause they're too small. Too fast.
Great video - very thorough. Thank you!
This video was so fast it was like trying to take a sip of water from a fire hose! Exasperating!!!!!
I have noticed a trend on u tube where creator videos are now made with the dialog being spoken very, very fast and then the spaces between breaths are edited out. I many times have to slow the speed down to listen comfortably.
Woah…….i am truly a chocoholic!! In the last 15 years since having children I have always bought the “really” good organic chocolate…..now I’m just in a daze…😅
We have slolightly different products in Canada what about ‘Camino’ I did not see that on your list. I always try to buy green and blacks. I was in greneda in the Carribean and saw where it was harvested. Good and clean!!! But now all this info…..my head is spinning!!
thank you so much ! you solved my puzzle ！
Thank you! Good to know.
⚘ THANK YOU SO MUCH!
Ruby chocolate ? This is the very first time I've ever heard of it.
Can you review Blueprint Bryan Johnson Non Dairy Cocoa Powder - 7.5% Flavanols, 100% Pure Cocoa, Low Fat Unsweetened Cocoa, Undutched, Keto Friendly, Great for Baking & Cooking, Tested for Heavy Metals (12 Ounces)?
She is providing a lot of information fast and there is nooption to download the lists.
Thank you for your best advice 👍
Well from my understanding on studying zeolite clinoptliolite, you can reduce or eliminate both cadmium, lead and other heavy metals there's a lot of research on this and there's also articles with research on the national institute of health websites. So check that out. Zeolite has also been used at Chernobyl add Fukushima to contain an attract radiation
Thank You this is so helpful🌸🌷🍀🪻🌼
What would stop the producers from buying cacao from another farm and still have the labeling the same? So the toxic amounts could change and you would never know it?
so is the bottom line eat cocoa powder for antioxidants but choose brand wisely or it will kill you ?
I think your theory applies to all food.
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Yeah I suppose it does but how is it not regulated ?
@@Healthyimmunedocnot all foods have dangerous levels of heavy metals! 😂
I make my own chocolate for its antioxidants and health benefits. I mix organic cocoa powder with organic extra virgin coconut oil and sweeten it to the level I want with raw honey I buy from a local supplier. I eat 1 or 2 spoonfuls a day and love the taste.
wow this sounds delicious!! can you walk through the entire process? like, do you refrigerate it to harden or or shape it into bars?
I saw a recent study that listed the Navitas as being the best cacao.
Just tell me what to buy please
Omg I love love chocolate I'm so happy I saw this time to make changes thank you
I just drank a huge glass of chocolate milk thought for sure I was safe since it’s organic cacao powder organic milk and raw local honey.. but I guess not .
Not all latim America. In Brazil the max cadmium accepted is 0,3 mg per caiu kg. The cacau ion Brazil has Is an excellent quality approved even from French specialist !
I eat chocolate with 95% cacao. Is that good?
So, Doc, what chocolate do you eat today?
I think pure chocolate just add hot water
Really appreciate your Advice and you explain everything so well ,i just brought 100% cacao dark chocolate, only for the health benefits, I only eat i chunk a week as dont really like the taste 😮
What do you think about Blueprint cocoa powder?
I would share this video with my family but there is no detailed info written to help in the shopping of good chocolate/cacao. The video zooms with not much in detailed brands. I guess we need a consumer reports subscription as that reference was mentioned several times. Great unshareable info is no info😢
Thank you for this video - my teenage son likes to make chocolate milk and I have been looking for a replacement since I saw the consumer report on lead in chocolate (though I didn’t see in that report that they test nesquick or Ovaltine). I will get that brand from target and make our own mix. Except that the Good and Gather chocolate chips are high in lead and that powder chart you were showing was referencing cadmium. Wonder if I can find out the lead levels in their cocoa powder?
If it’s in the air, water, land then many fruits and vegetables grown in the same conditions can bioaccumulate it too.
I was also on the quest of finding chocolate without toomuch heavy metals but I didn't succeed. The problem is that under the same brand sometimes there is not much cadmium and sometimes there is. So basically I just stopped buying Cadbury and brands from the list. The word 'organic' is usually helpful
Raworganic 100 pct. cacao power is light and tasteless and I wonder if have much polypheols?
I bought Trader Joe’s chocolate as a gift awhile back, including that little colorful package and I tried some and it just tasted bad so I was embarrassed that I even gave it to anybody. It’s interesting to know the Trader Joe’s chocolate is awful.
Theo on the other hand is a chocolate manufacturer here in Seattle and it claimed to be the only organic chocolate manufacturer in the United States. They used to have tours where you saw them processing Coco on old equipment. They bought small equipment, small batches, from beans to Little truffles. It was really wonderful and interesting though that Theo‘s chocolate has a sort of interesting flavor. One of the cool things about Theo is that they do retain their cocoa butter rather than sell it off for more money and replace it with less than which a lot of chocolate manufacturers do. So it’s got an interesting flavor Theo and I’m disappointed about the high levels.