Yet despite dark chocolate’s reputation as a healthier sweet, it can also be contaminated with lead and cadmium, two heavy ...

Each year, lovebirds purchase about 58 million pounds of the stuff for Valentine’s Day, so why not you? After all, chocolate ...

This is likely due to the natural heavy metal absorption properties of cacao, the primary ingredient in chocolate flavoring. Metals may be incorporated into cocoa beans from soil or water as the ...

There may be a dark side to some dark chocolate. Consumer Reports says it found concerning levels of lead and cadmium, heavy metals linked to health problems in children and adults, in some dark ...

The city’s consumer watchdog has discovered that all 29 chocolate samples it tested contained traces of the heavy metal cadmium, with one batch exceeding permitted EU levels. The Consumer ...