Building upon a December 2022 report on the levels of toxic heavy metals in dark chocolate, Consumer Reports recently published new findings about the contaminants in other kinds of chocolates, suggesting that one-third of chocolate products contain high levels of heavy metals.
Although dark chocolate contains the highest levels of cocoa, the ingredient in which lead and cadmium tend to accumulate, Consumer Reports sought to investigate the extent to which toxic heavy metals exist in milk chocolate and other cocoa-containing products.