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
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 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.
@@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.
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.
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 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
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.
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 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.
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.
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!!
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.
This woman's obsession with cadmium is bordering on asinine, sorry. Heavy metals including cadmium are the least of our worries in chocolate - they are a global agricultural phenomenon in the first place. Anything that grows from the ground contains some tiny amount of them. Moreover, to assert that cadmium "contamination" is attributable to industrial poisoning is also very misleading. Most of the cadmium levels present in cocoa-growing lands are due to the naturally higher concentrations of this element in volcanic soils. They came from the center of the earth. Does knowing this make cadmium better for for us - of course not. But it certainly puts things in perspective. Let's not get too crazy over this subject.
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 ..
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?
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! 😊
@@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. 😂
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 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.
You go too fast, which doesn’t give us time to grab the pictures and read them even. Slow down and let some of this sink in better instead of having to go back and listen to it 10 times to get the information.
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 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.
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.
"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
Hopefully it will not be Chinese or from Made in China. Look at the garlic coming from China and it is very alarming how it is farmed in filthy conditions unworthy of human consumption at all.
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 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.
Doc: You mentioned that chocolate is contaminated during processing. Do you have recommendations on how the processing of chocolate could reduce lead 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.
My phone is crazy at the moment! I want to mention that cacao powder is rich in phytic acid! I produce my own chocolate with cacao butter, milkpowder, cacao powder, and a small amount of sugar or muscovado. But i take more cacao or cocoa powder than mention in this video! The phytic acid in cacao powder is binding to trace minerals and the body can not use the minerals anymore.
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.
A blanket statement saying saturated fat is bad ruined her credibility for me, and I was already suspicious that she's way overreacting about chocolate.
Very interesting video, but I'm not sure what the bottom line is. To get max flavonols and minimum cadmium/lead, what's the best choice? Montezuma's best for cadmium, but no info on lead or flavonols . . . alternate Montezuma's with Endangered Species??? No flavonol info given on chocolate, only for cocoa powders. I'm mostly after flavonols, but want to reduce the toxic stuff. Maybe just stick with hot chocolate made with Good & Gather unsweetened cacao powder???
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 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😢
Hi, I probably heard you incorrectly but I think I recall in a past video you said something about how the effects of fructose/ fruit sugar is not adequately measured by using a glucose meter (glucose vs fructose). I just wanted to check in and see what you thought about that? If it’s true or not.
Yes. Table sugar is Sucrose which is glucose and fructose. Wheat Starch is amylose which is made from glucose links. This is why white breads elevate blood sugar higher than pure table sugar.
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...
Hi, can you tell me anything about Anthony’s Cocoa powder? I got it from Amazon. It says it’s organic but I just don’t know any studies done on it. We use a lot of it. I mix it in my coffee. I’ve been using it for the last couple years. I’m a little concerned.
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?
$44 for 9 barrs of Montezuma's dark black. $47.00 for 12 ruby chocolate bars. Expensive addiction. Next: Can't buy Lindt. The raw organic cacoa nibs that I bought are from Peru. Burned again.
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?
Trader Joe’s is disappointing. I shop there a lot. I bought a bunch of their sipping Euro style chocolate powder. No country of origin listed. I wonder if their non organic cocoa powder from Colombia fares better than the organic one mentioned here from Peru. The European Union does a better job at protecting its citizens than the USA.
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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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
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.
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
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 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.
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 ✅
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.
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 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
Ok so living kills you!
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 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.
this was fantastic - finally someone giving a full comprehensive explanation - i learned so much. thankyou ! I will watch this several times.
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
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.
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!
I'm so proud of you sharing this information!!
“I sold chocolate candy bars in high school… my biggest customer was me” 🤣🤣🤣 I think we all have this experience! 🤣
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 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.
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.
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 like the way you give us the full story of things and not just a basic one sided point of view.
Me too😊
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.
This woman's obsession with cadmium is bordering on asinine, sorry. Heavy metals including cadmium are the least of our worries in chocolate - they are a global agricultural phenomenon in the first place. Anything that grows from the ground contains some tiny amount of them.
Moreover, to assert that cadmium "contamination" is attributable to industrial poisoning is also very misleading. Most of the cadmium levels present in cocoa-growing lands are due to the naturally higher concentrations of this element in volcanic soils. They came from the center of the earth.
Does knowing this make cadmium better for for us - of course not. But it certainly puts things in perspective. Let's not get too crazy over this subject.
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...
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?
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 glad I found you. the information is wonderful. so many topics!
Saturated fat is not bad for you, stop believing the lies. You're recommending sugar over saturated fat, you've got it backwards!!
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! 😊
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. 😂
She is providing a lot of information fast and there is nooption to download the lists.
Hershey’s, Nestle, etc. don’t make chocolate, despite what the label says-it’s confectionary.
Correct!!
Absolutely!
I love confectionery
Hope you might consider a video on heavy metal detox; a complicated, controversial subject.
Thank you so much for this video.
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 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.
Love your channel ❤
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
Pause the video and take screen shots. Great way to save info if not included in the description.
You go too fast, which doesn’t give us time to grab the pictures and read them even. Slow down and let some of this sink in better instead of having to go back and listen to it 10 times to get the information.
Thank You this is so helpful🌸🌷🍀🪻🌼
If it’s in the air, water, land then many fruits and vegetables grown in the same conditions can bioaccumulate it too.
White choc is loaded with sugar.
I love this channel. So educational and she is easy to listen to. Thank you, Dr. Liu!
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
So, Doc, what chocolate do you eat today?
I think pure chocolate just add hot water
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.
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.
"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
Confusing. Some say dark chocolate are healthy and you say "Its not what you think".. Who is the most intelligent doctor of them all?
So wait, is Ruby chocolate good or bad? Assuming it's supposed to be good but there wasn't enough info.
?? I know! I had to rewind to check but no mention
Hopefully it will not be Chinese or from Made in China.
Look at the garlic coming from China and it is very alarming how it is farmed in filthy conditions unworthy of human consumption at all.
Jillian Michael's has a breakfast recipe that includes cocoa nibs. I have been eating them in smoothies for over a year. I wish I knew this before.
I need to watch every one of your videos at least twice to absorb all the valuable information! I wish you are my doctor ❤
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.
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.
Doc: You mentioned that chocolate is contaminated during processing. Do you have recommendations on how the processing of chocolate could reduce lead contamination?
You're just a bundle of joy.
😂
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.
There's a difference in dutch process qnd normal process
What about using organic cacao powder to make hot chocolate instead of using cocoa powder?
So are there any chocolate bars(except for Montezuma's which is obscure)that we can safely eat?????
My phone is crazy at the moment! I want to mention that cacao powder is rich in phytic acid! I produce my own chocolate with cacao butter, milkpowder, cacao powder, and a small amount of sugar or muscovado. But i take more cacao or cocoa powder than mention in this video! The phytic acid in cacao powder is binding to trace minerals and the body can not use the minerals anymore.
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.
IF you want to take any of this information down, you had better have quick reflexes along with a finger constantly on the pause button.
I am trying to read the info on the images but haven't gotten it yet. Wish it were listed somewhere.
A blanket statement saying saturated fat is bad ruined her credibility for me, and I was already suspicious that she's way overreacting about chocolate.
If there is a specific heavy metal blood panel you could recommend that is welcomed info
Very informative video, thank you.... however saturated fats are actually good for you
Undutched cocoa powder.
Not all cocoa powder has lead and cadmium, Australia gets its cocoa powder from Ghana no problem with it
kind of looking for the best of the worst recommendations, lowest combined lead/cadmium, highest flavenols.
Very interesting video, but I'm not sure what the bottom line is. To get max flavonols and minimum cadmium/lead, what's the best choice? Montezuma's best for cadmium, but no info on lead or flavonols . . . alternate Montezuma's with Endangered Species??? No flavonol info given on chocolate, only for cocoa powders. I'm mostly after flavonols, but want to reduce the toxic stuff. Maybe just stick with hot chocolate made with Good & Gather unsweetened cacao powder???
Thanks. Great exposistion but not the best news.
Is anything what I think?
I subscribed because I liked the information
However. Please talk little slow and pause after each segment.
Thanks
I can't get the info down, and I can't read the picture attachment cause they're too small. Too fast.
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 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😢
Hi,
I probably heard you incorrectly but I think I recall in a past video you said something about how the effects of fructose/ fruit sugar is not adequately measured by using a glucose meter (glucose vs fructose). I just wanted to check in and see what you thought about that? If it’s true or not.
Yes. Table sugar is Sucrose which is glucose and fructose. Wheat Starch is amylose which is made from glucose links. This is why white breads elevate blood sugar higher than pure table sugar.
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...
The type of saturated fat in dark chocolate does not raise LDL levels.
So, which ones should we buy???
Hi, can you tell me anything about Anthony’s Cocoa powder? I got it from Amazon. It says it’s organic but I just don’t know any studies done on it. We use a lot of it. I mix it in my coffee. I’ve been using it for the last couple years. I’m a little concerned.
What about AF - Atrial Fibrillation and cocoa?
Thank you
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?
$44 for 9 barrs of Montezuma's dark black. $47.00 for 12 ruby chocolate bars. Expensive addiction. Next: Can't buy Lindt.
The raw organic cacoa nibs that I bought are from Peru. Burned again.
Thank you. Now I’d like to know how to naturally purge my body from heavy metals (not heavy metal music 😂)
Binge listen to Metallica. 😂
@@Resmith18SR wouldn’t that add more heavy metal to my brain. It’s pretty full of Deep Purple and Rainbow still from the 70s/80s 🤘🏽
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?
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.
@@Healthyimmunedoc
Yeah I suppose it does but how is it not regulated ?
@@Healthyimmunedocnot all foods have dangerous levels of heavy metals! 😂
Please could you comment on Oialla? the 72% cocoa bar. Thank you so much!
Trader Joe’s is disappointing. I shop there a lot. I bought a bunch of their sipping Euro style chocolate powder. No country of origin listed. I wonder if their non organic cocoa powder from Colombia fares better than the organic one mentioned here from Peru. The European Union does a better job at protecting its citizens than the USA.
Sadly I think it's political greed, & lobbyists that are to blame. JMO
I'm confused. I mix 1/2 tsp Guittard grand cacao with coffee. Is this safe? If not, can you please suggest a better alternative from Sprouts?
Threw away chocolate given by your son? That's sad!
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.
This did not tell me the chocolate to buy best for my family.😢