I wonder if it makes a difference where the beans are grown. I have started looking into ours and Cadbury Australia gets their beans from Ghana. We also grow cocoa in the Northern Territory, QLD and WA.
The main destination of Chocolate exports from Australia are: New Zealand ($111M), Japan ($32.1M), Malaysia ($17.3M), South Korea ($11.7M), and Hong Kong ($11M).
https://nt.gov.au/environment/home-gardens/growing-vegetables-at-home/cocoa.
Lindt & Sprüngli uses fine flavor cocoa beans (Criollo and Trinitario) from Ecuador, Madagascar, Dominican Republic and Papua New Guinea.
Hershey
During the past few years, we have been investing in improving the traceability of our cocoa supply chain and have committed to 100 percent visibility by 2025 into the farmer groups participating in our Cocoa For Good program representing all of the cocoa volume we source from Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana.
With the lead falling as dust on the drying beans is there some sort of manufacturing or smelter in the region to cause that. If there is that much lead in the normal air around the world you would think it would be in everything we eat. Most vegetables etc usually grown outdoors and all the food animals eat grass.
On a lighter note an Australian article.
There is a glimmer of hope – of the 28 chocolate bars featured in the study (of which all 28 contained lead and cadmium), many were brands sold in the US, not here. This might actually mean nothing at all, but at least it gives you the opportunity to continue living in chocolatey ignorance until there’s a similar Australian study done.
Regards to all
@jeanne-mayell, you are welcome for the smile! It was just too good not to share.
@lovendures, Say no to chocolate? Can that really be done? Inquiring minds want to know.
Happy new year to all!
Happy and healthy New Year to all! 🥂
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