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References
[1] doi:10.1093/ajcn/nqac055
[2] doi:10.3389/fnut.2017.00036

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[SkepticalCaveman]

For those who drink coffe, just mix a table spoon of raw cacao powder into your coffe.

[Frodojack]

According to Consumer Reports, Navitas Organics and Ghirardelli are the two brands of cocoa powder lowest in heavy metals. They were tested for lead and cadmium. Africa seems to be a better source for cacao than South America.

[illiakhudiakov]

Apparently Lindt and Lily’s has roughly 4x lead and cadmium comparing to Ghirardelli (86% cacao) You’re welcome!

[ellie]

Hershey's isn't chocolate
It's sweetened brown lard

[RichQcCa]

Well, the study used Cocoa extract, not dark chocolate. Their might be some nuances that might not allow to make a correlation between the two. One of them is that extracts have a much higher in flavonoid than just dark chocolate. Also, I would think that telling the dosage they used would be in important piece of information.

[PS-qnoz]

I started eating chocolate on a regular basis when I learned that the world's oldest person, Jeanne Calment, ate a kilo of chocolate per week sometimes. I lost all restraint then. If she can, I can. Sometimes I feel like a reckless fool but not today, not after this video. Thanks :)

[motoxrich]

One of the greatest channels on YouTube.

[roqclimber]

You want me to eat chocolate? Well, okay. If I have to.

[Paul-dorsetuk]

Most interesting! In the UK, you can order Montezumas 100% cacao dark chocolate in either plain, almond or orange, online.

[_negentropy_]

On it! Thanks for going through the mechanisms, my favourite part of your videos. I learn something new every time!
(I drink hot chocolate instead of coffee everyday! Well, raw cacao, but still, it feels like such a treat!)

[itzikca]

I ate a ton of chocolate yesterday 😂 which means a week of intermittent fasting, but seriously i have a pea protein shake daily and i put a large amount of cocoa powder in it, along with some collagen.

[Vivldi]

I noticed when patients have heartburn, especially from stress (high histamin) and then eat dark chocolate (90% and higher) the hurt burn gets worse (more histamine) which cant be good for the heart

[misterspiff]

Thing is, the "chocolate" that many people are familiar with is made up mostly of bad fat and sugar.

Baker's chocolate or perhaps powders may be healthier forms to add into foods.

I like to use unsweetened chocolate in whole grain breakfast cereals like oatmeal and Wheatena.

Unsweetened cocoa is actually excellent ... its like a mellow coffee. That's actually the way that the old world consumed their chocolate for a few hundred years. Of course, it enriches coffees too.

It works well in smoothies and yogurts.

It can work in peanut butter (or other nut butters).

It can supplement tomato sauces, stews, and curries.

You can sneak it in with lentils and other legumes.

It might even work in some salad dressings... I've never tried that though.

[roqclimber]

I know Theobromine is similar to caffeine. But I didn't know it influenced cGMP like Sildenafil. Confession is good for the Soul, and Chocolate is good for the Pole!

[Lulu-ktgr]

I add raw cacao powder to my smoothies and coffee. I love chocolate bars also, but I don’t eat them too often because of the sugar and cocoa butter content. Maybe you could find studies on the effects of Cocoa butter in the body.?

[owshugh]

As usual, great stuff. There is quite debate on Olive oil VS whole olives for polyphenols content and polyphenols typology on the blueprint subreddit - would be super interesting to have your view on this!

[peetsnort]

Ive started putting raw cacao powder on bran in the morning

[annaj.]

Yeeesss! 💝 I love backing cacao powder. So 100%, in organic and fair trade quality. I mix it with fruits and sometimes if the fruits are not sweet enough, with bit of sugar. So I control what is "inside". Now I am happy, that this isn't only tastfull but also healthy 😍

[Grymyrk]

I already started adding a tablespoon 100% raw cocoa powder to my breakfast on the recommendation from Bryan Johnson. And also a spoon of ceylon cinnamon.

Unfortunately where i live its impossible to know the metal content of any of these products.

[romz]

I put 90% dark chocolate on oatmeal/porridge each morning, melty chocolaty goodness
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