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.
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 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.
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 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.
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.
@@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!
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.
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.
@@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 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.
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?
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.
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 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.
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!!
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.
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!
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.
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 ..
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.
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! 😊
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.
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...
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.
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?
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.
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 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.
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!!
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.
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!
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
If you look at the transcript, then go to the place in the video (e.g., 9:22 for high cadmium levels), you can stop the video and zoom in to see the graphic.
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.
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 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😢
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)?
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?
This is very informative relatively shorter video. … I wish you showed a comparative table to select from that shows all considerations (Flavinols Cocoa with less sugar & fat and least Cadmium and Lead). Which ones do you recommend if one has to eat? I mean considering Flavinols Cocoa with less sugar & fat and least Cadmium and Lead… I could not make out at the end. Please include 1-3 summary slides at the end
"The Use of N-Acetylcysteine as a Chelator for Metal Toxicity" is an animal study that showed NAC testing for reduction of heavy metals. Further human studies haven't been verified yet but this study showed promise
Bryan Johnson has what you want - he is sourcing his own stuff to ensure things like Heavy Metals in cacao isnt an issue. The Blueprint - By Bryan Johnson.
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 😮
Oh man how can the world tell how much heavy metals are in dark chocolate or any chocoalte? shouldn't there be a label to tell us on nutritional values?
We always thinking that the US is the capital of standards and safety, and in reality are about the last ones to take measures in eliminating dangerous foods. The US is more worried about money than health
First, adk your MD to test uour blood gor heav metals. If high, s/he should refer you for chelation treatment, where the metals will be removed from your body. Hood luck
@@jrosario4831 good advice. I’d still like a follow-up to this video from the doctor. Even if I had heavy metals in my blood I’d rather find something less invasive that putting needles in my body with a foreign substance. Wouldn’t you?
