recently a lot of popular brands that produce dark chocolate like hershey’s were found to have heavy metals like lead and cadmium. How much harm will consuming dark chocolate actually do to me? They suspect it’s involved in when the actual cocoa is grown and somehow lead is contaminated into it during the process or something
Dark chocolate is only one of many foods that have measurable limits of potentially hazardous elements. Ginger for instance has been known to contain toxic levels of lead (I believe). People eat it constantly, and in some cultures it’s used ubiquitously. The issue isn’t the containment so much as it is the amount consumed.