A recent American study warned against eating dark chocolate because it contains carcinogens and substances that cause children’s mental problems, which have been leaked to them during agriculture and manufacturing.
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According to the British “Daily Mail” newspaper, the American Consumer Reports Corporation in New York analyzed 28 types of dark chocolate to reveal the levels of lead and cadmium in it, which causes kidney cancer and weak bones, while lead causes mental problems in children when exposed to it frequently.
The study found that 83% of the dark chocolate included in the experiment contained 3 times the permissible levels of cadmium, while it contained more than two and a half times the levels of lead that were safe to eat, and there were 4 types of dark chocolate within the analysis.
It is only in which lead and cadmium do not exceed the safe levels for ingestion.
Cadmium is found in agricultural soils, and cocoa plants absorb it. As for lead, it evaporates in the air from lead mines to attach to cocoa beans. These mines are abundant in cocoa-producing countries that make dark chocolate.
The study showed that lead poisoning for children is remote, as the child needs to eat dark chocolate daily in order to be exposed to the damages of lead poisoning, whose symptoms may appear on the child with frequent dispersion and poor concentration.
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