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Mmm Cadmium Eggs are my favorite
Also, please make your chocolate taste less nasty Hershey.
If I had to name any chocolate that tastes like it has lead and cadmium in it, that'd be Hershey's.
serious question: why not simply buy some other chocolate that tastes better?
The options are essentially Nestle or Hershey chocolate here in the US. You kinda gotta pick your poison
Bullshit, there's plenty of good chocolate in any major retailer. I can go to my local grocery store and find Godiva, Ghirardelli, Lindt, Ritter, along with a wide selection of miscellaneous European imports.
The stuff you'll find in stores is not "premium chocolatier in the Swiss Alps" quality, but it's decent chocolate and it's not hard to find.
Big agree. People won't admit it, but they just buy what they're familiar with and complain about it being bad.
I think a large detterent for many is the price difference. Hershey's kind of matches that snack price for a little treat you'd find at the front counter. Going back to the good stuff and seeing it 3 or 4 times the price will lose a lot of people. There's a reason people say you get what you pay for though...
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There’s a large range of smaller brands too. Pascha, Cultura, Raaka, Taza, Lily’s, Theo’s, Tony’s, Green and Black, Alter Eco… plus dozens of tiny regional brands. It’s about like craft beer.
The only American chocolate I like is made by Wilbur. Far, far better than anything Hershey or Nestle makes.
I used to go to the Wilbur museum all the time! The milk chocolate Wilbur buds are some of the best chocolates I’ve ever had.
Unfortunately the factory in Lititz shut down in 2016 so the town doesn't smell like chocolate anymore.
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You can find way more than that available at a chocolate shop, organic/natural grocery store or coffee shops and bookstores.
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I haven't eaten Hershey's in so long because I remember it tasting mildly of vomit. Am I the only one who thinks the flavor has hints of vomit? What even is that?
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Thank goodness that their horrid rotten flavor is a perfect deterrent for anyone who ever had real chocolate.
US troops giving Hershey chocolates to Iraqi and Afghani children should be considered a war crime. Here, I said it.
I like their cadmium berry eggs during Easter.
To each their own but the lead kisses are a bit sweeter which is more my cup of polonium.
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A confused spokesperson for Hershey argued that none of their products actually contain real chocolate.
Cannot be sold as chocolate in the EU for two reasons;
1.it doesn't contain the menial amount(10%!) of chocolate required to be labeled as such.
- No one wants to buy that awful tasting shit
Pretty sure the percentage of milk fat is also too low for American Hershey's chocolate to be classified as chocolate in Europe.
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Hershey's be like "the slaves who were responsible for putting the poison in the chocolate have been shot. New slaves are being brought in forthwith."
Well, now we know where the lead came from
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There's more lead allowed in a liter of drinking water in the US than a serving of any of the chocolates being reported, as far as I can find. (15 micrograms per liter.) Provided nobody's eating a few dozen bars of chocolate in a single sitting I can't imagine accumulating enough to cause acute harm from the chocolate alone. Chasing down Hershey, Nestle et al to hold them accountable is great, but in terms of toxic metals we'd have more success and greater impact lighting up the news about water supplies.
Just mildly frustrated that I continue to see talk about chocolate while drinking water is a necessity and consumed in greater amounts daily but rarely gets reported outside of extreme cases like Flint.
Sure, but getting that same amount of lead from water as well as each type of food you eat is going to add together.
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Here are last year's testing results, in a table with filters:
https://www.asyousow.org/environmental-health/toxic-enforcement/toxic-chocolate#chocolate-tables
If you sort by highest lead content you get "NOW Healthy Foods Certified Organic Cocoa Powder 100% Pure" as the top result, and highest cadmium content you get "Sunfood Super Foods Raw Cacao Powder- Certified Organic" at the top. I find it hilariously ironic that the two highest ones are "Certified Organic". Also, the highest lead one was "100% pure".
What does the "ug" stand for in that table. It isn't actually a "u" but it kind of looks like a u
that's Greek letter mu. It means micrograms or one millionth of a gram
Thank you
Micrograms
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Maybe they are making them cadmium eggs for Easter’s.
Ahh yes, lead and cadmium. Every chocolate factory has a lot of that laying around.
I mean they kinda do, the cacao tree pulls ~~those elements~~ (cadmium) out of the soil or the cacao is in contact with soil containing those elements during processing. Many brands have issues with lead and cadmium but it can be mitigated by choosing a better supplier, frequent testing, and protecting product better during shipment. Mentioning Hershey's is going to draw a lot of attention especially right before Halloween but it's a common issue in chocolate.
Edited with some corrections. Also mrchampion pointed out further down in this thread that it is likely the lead contamination comes from leaded gasoline during shipment.
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So now maybe they can mine chocolate for raw material to make batteries. :-o
But we just brought out "Her She" packaging. Now you want us to remove lead, which was saving us over a quarter cent per pallet? Millennial entitlement is truly boundless.
I ate a chunky bar the other night, because you know, sadness, and then went for a run a while later. A mile or so in my kidneys started to hurt. I can't say it was for sure the chunky bar but they haven't hurt like that before or since. What type of villainous corporate hack poisons the thing that's supposed to be the small escape of joy?
Also, Chunky is Nestle but still my bias says poison. I'm prepared to now receive your insults for liking Chunky bars.
The common thread seems to be the concentration of cocoa solids, since all the concerning products had greater levels (dark chocolate, powders, etc). The Chucky bar being milk chocolate should be fine, per the article.
They're not fine, if it's Nestlé.
If you are taking about supporting a particularly flagrant bad corporate actor, then I agree. If about the safety of the milk chocolate, then the article indicates otherwise.
Here's Consumer Reports Dec. 2022 report that lists chocolate by company.
This was the report that started a run on dark chocolate from certain sources that helped raise prices to the crazy levels they are now (along with a worldwide shortage).
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