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Originally Posted by Bob-a-rama
I was eating Lindt 85% until the Consumers Report came out and showed high lead and cadmium content. So I switched.
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Gosh yes! You should.
Yes, cocoa is "healthy" because of the antioxidants. But I'm restricting oxalate (with excellent autoimmune results!) so cocoa extract is my go to for my Naked Whey smoothies. They test with labs on the site, which is reassuring.
But I looked it up and there is no scientific support for people actually benefiting from the antioxidants. Which are there for the plant's purposes, not ours. Some of the studies even admit there is no scientific evidence for their proposed healthy effect.
And now I'm uncertain about using chocolate at all. Not if it's contaminated, and it turns out "organic" on the label makes it more likely it IS.
Thanks for this important info, Bob. Cocoa extract is looking even better now!
Antioxidants are currently a theory we are all living out based on epidemiological studies of people filling out six month or yearly "What do you remember eating?" food questionnaires.
When people don't fill these out honestly. How can they remember? We KNOW people tend to shade their answers according to the nutritional dogma operating when they fill them out.
So they eat more vegetables and less junk on paper than they do in life.
Won't live by a lie. Even a seemingly "harmless" one.