One ounce of a specific dark chocolate bar contained 204% of the maximum daily allowed cadmium.

“every single bar tested high in both leading cadmium Theo Trader Joe's lilies green and black every single chocolate bar had significant amounts of lead and cadmium in it”

“if you look at what they did they looked at heavy metal amounts in 28 chocolate bars and what they found was not good they looked at a variety of Brands big and small Brands and you can see here that some of the safest choices include things like Mast which only had 14 percent of the recommended allowed lead 40 of cadmium Taza giardelli had 61 and 96 and valrona had 63 and 73 respectively for cadmium and Lead but it's important to understand that those percentages are percentages of the maximum allowable dose level for lead and cadmium so it's important to note that this is just one ounce of the chocolate that's being surveyed for these amounts of heavy metals”

“this one huge simple dark chocolate one ounce had 210 percent of the maximum daily allowed amount of lead one ounce”

“204 of the maximum daily allowable amount of cadmium the maximum amount for lead is 0.5 micrograms per cadmium it's 4.1”

“in a recent study by Consumer Reports 28 different chocolate bars were analyzed and every single chocolate bar had significant levels of both lead and cadmium”