Which Chocolate Is The Healthiest? It's Not What You Think.
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- Chocolate contains longevity antioxidants but many brands are full of heavy metals with little beneficial antioxidants. However there are some brands that are excellent to eat. The answers will surprise you. ♥️ 👀 Next: Lower & Reverse High Cholesterol: Top 10 Best Ways • Lower & Reverse High C... ♥️ My favorite Daily Superfood Immunity Supplement: NACPRO+ nacproplus.com/
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The trauma of working in the frontlines as an acute and critical care Infectious Disease specialist during the chaos and stress of 2020-21, motivated Dr. Liu to promote practical health and wellness principles for her community.
HealthyImmuneDoc youtube channel is an extension of her education campaign to help people understand how to optimize immunity and inflammation and slow down premature aging caused by acute and chronic conditions.
Everyone is welcome!
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Dr. Liu is the co-founder of NACPro+, dedicated to optimizing immunity and wellness.
Dr. Liu graduated from Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1998 and is Double Boarded in Infectious Disease and Internal Medicine. She is licensed in the state of California.
This channel is separate from Dr. Liu’s duties as Attending Medical Staff @ Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and as Assistant Professor at Loma Linda University School of Medicine. The views on this channel are her own.
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00:00 Introduction
01:06 High In Both Lead & Cadmium
01:22 Types of Chocolate
01:44 Definition and History
02:09 Hot Chocolate
02:53 Nestle & Lindt
03:21 Cadmium
06:46 Calcium
08:28 Preventing Cadmium Absorption
09:20 Chocolate High in Cadmium
09:42 Low Cadmium Chocolate Bar
09:55 Chocolate High in Lead
10:11 Lead Sources
10:30 Chocolate Low in Lead
10:58 Cocoa Nibs
11:44 Caffeine
12:00 Production of The Types of Chocolate
12:24 Improvements in Peripheral Artery Disease
12:59 Mitochondria Health
14:28 Weight Loss
16:03 Cholesterol & Heart Disease
16:14 Chocolate with High Flavanols
16:51 Chocolate Chips with Lower Heavy Metals
17:02 Hot Chocolate
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this is depressing. i need a drink.
LOL
Alcohol is kind of toxic too.
😅
I just bought a bunch of different cocos and cacao thinking dark chocolate's good for me. I forgot all about The other issues that weren't positive. Lord have mercy now what?.
Me too. A drink. What a downer. Could you leave your visuals up longer?
Bottom line:
Low Cadmium Chocolate Bars: 9:42
Chocolate bars Low in Lead: 10:30
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Thank you!!!!
Thanks
Love the bookmarks, thanks 🔖❤
Note- chocolate from West Africa has much less cadmium and you have to Block cadmium absorbtion by having enough of fiber, calcium, zink, iron and magnesium and according to this you can choose one Dark chocolate Montezumas Dark chocolate with 100 % Cocoa and 0 gr - 0,06 microgr cadmium per gram - 3 teaspoon of Cocoa powder can be beneficial for older people - the. Itochondria Work better and they get more mitochondria … choose Cocoa powder with high flavonoids and low cadmium e.g. Good & Gather unsweetened cacao powder….
Thank you @lisengel2498 for typing this out! 😊🙏🏾💯💐
Brilliant summary of all the key points of the video. Thanks!
Montezumas Dark chocolate is too expensive.
@@illegaldestroyercheaper than a lot of other drugs. Neil Barnard calls chocolate a pharmacy because of 4 drugs/chemicals that alter us in some way! I have lost 2 teeth for rotting (back teeth and I am almost 70) from chocolate (acid pH will eat teeth). Chocolate may be better than pop/soda for teeth and bones!? My other addiction has been pop/soda!!! Darn!
She said Good & Gather brand is sold at Target. But Target is a leftist, ultra-woke company. Buying anything from them supports the further destruction of civilization.
I eat tons of chocolate because I intentionally want to deprive everyone else of it.
LOL. Me too.
Thank you for your sacrifice..
I love that and so caring at same time really
Good man.😂
I've often wondered the things that we love the most is coffee chocolate and yet so many people get cancer and I'm thinking makes you wonder ya know
I just came upon u and I hv been studying cocoa powder. Right on time. May U continue educating the masses- 1 person saved frm poor health is worth it.
I'm living in philippines and I have a farm and have one cacao tree! I'm a cacao lover! There is a difference between Cacao and Cocoa!
Appreciate your sharing, Dr Liu. Could we have a list of what chocolates and cocoa powders to buy/eat? Your video kinda zoomed pass everything like a bullet train.
Lol😂 bullet train. ❤
First the science, then the product. Don't you think it's better?
For sure!
I would like a list too. Even though I took screenshots and reviewed a few parts, it’s still a blur.
Under the description she has a time stamp list. You will find the photos and tables at the time stamps for all of the data... a great benefit for her viewers. Thank you Dr. Liu
I am Nicaraguan and it is in our heritage to drink cacao in powdery form, in fact we used to make it. I have no problems healthwise. The best Cacao is Central American.
I agree 100%, fortunately here in Switzerland we have a small manufacturing who started to produce chocolate all new way with cold extraction so all the flavonol is kept. It is called Oro de Cacao and it is organic.
Do you know if they test their chocolate for heavy metals?
Am 76 yo and have been having cacao drink since childhood. Did not have or have health issues. No maintenance pills, sleeps good and still work my farm. This reminds me of the assault on coconuts, oil and all.
Are you mostly a carnivore?
@@ianstuart5660carnivore is gay
Who else binged on their own fundraising chocolates? ✋🏼
what do they do when you do that dont they force parrents to pay for it or they just get mad?
@@NightmareRex6 Yes, you have to pay for them. I don’t remember how I solved that dilemma.
The lists don't stay up long enough to read. This may be easy to pause and read on a computer, but is much harder on a phone.
I screenshot them rewind screenshot them rewind and then enlarge them and screenshot them again so I can read them ✅
I make my own chocolate using cocoa powder, coconut oil and allulose
P.S. Chocolates in the US taste horrible
So do I ! And I make sure the cocoa powder is from a good source, and NOT Dutch processed which removes some of the polyphenols, other nutrients.
Nice. Can you share any of your recipes?
@@ALady4ever I looked up the recipes online and the allulose is not really that healthy from I can read, more like fructose. Just saying. Please look up and make your own opinion! Good Luck!
Good information, but very discouraging. I have tried to choose dark chocolate (cacao, not cocoa) without sugar, or low glycemic (like coconut sugar), and eat sparingly. I have hypoglycemia, and want to avoid diabetes or pre diabetes. I wasn't considering heavy metals like lead and cadmium.
And, the info is valuable, but I hope you consider slowing down the pace of delivery; too much, too fast. A slight pause between new facts would help. But we can pause and replay.
Another Major problem with raw cacao powder, is oxalates, I recently developed kidney problems (never had any health problems previous) I included unsweetened cacao powder for the polyphenols, and its purported stimulation of stem cells, Almond milk, nuts, beet root, and cacao among other high oxalate foods, will mess your kidneys up eventually, too bad, I really liked that in my smoothies. now taking mushroom powder for its health benefits instead.
I like the way you give us the full story of things and not just a basic one sided point of view.
Me too😊
You are a bundle of joy.
so glad I found you. the information is wonderful. so many topics!
I love this channel. So educational and she is easy to listen to. Thank you, Dr. Liu!
this was fantastic - finally someone giving a full comprehensive explanation - i learned so much. thankyou ! I will watch this several times.
Thank you, great information.
Wow! truly thanks for this info.
I'm so proud of you sharing this information!!
very educational. Thank you!
Thank you for your best advice 👍
Amazing video! Thank
You!
Thank You this is so helpful🌸🌷🍀🪻🌼
I need to watch every one of your videos at least twice to absorb all the valuable information! I wish you are my doctor ❤
Hershey’s, Nestle, etc. don’t make chocolate, despite what the label says-it’s confectionary.
Correct!!
Absolutely!
I love confectionery
Thank you so much for this video.
Thank you! Good to know.
I use raw vegan Cacao powder for my raw recipes. For an occasional treat already prepared, we like Dr Bronners vegan chocolate bars. He uses coconut sugar. It is very low in heavy metals. Here in California. It has no prop 65 warning label.
Love Dr. B’s chocolate!!! 🍫
Which brand of raw cacao powder do you use, please? I've been using Kiva brand, purchased on Amazon.
I read the Consumer Reports article some months ago, and ended up buying 1 of the low lead/cadmium dark chocolate bars-Ghirardelli 72% Cacao Intense Dark Chocolate. Very good.😋 Curiously, it seems to reduce my cravings for chocolate. Now I’m wondering which cocoa powder to use for baking. The CR article didn’t test all chocolate products, so I hope the research continues.🌺
Unfortunately, Ghirardelli adds milk solids to all of their products. Thus, not only not vegan friendly (my concern), but it has the negative impact of dairy
@@cobylyons4439 I have no problem digesting dairy (lacto-ovo-vegetarian), and at 71 am very healthy. Everyone’s body is different.
@@cobylyons4439 Not all their products… I just checked my 72% Cacao Intense Dark Chocolate bar: “Unsweetened chocolate, cane sugar, cocoa butter, vanilla extract, soy lecithin.”🤷♀️
Thank you for this.
@cobylyons4439- Ghirardelli's 72% bars are vegan. Here are the ingredients: unsweetened chocolate, cane sugar, cocoa butter, vanilla extract, soy lecithin.
Pause the video and take screen shots. Great way to save info if not included in the description.
Such a great presentation
You're just a bundle of joy.
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THANK YOU so much for this informative video! I've been drinking chocolate milk made from organic cocoa powder from South America everyday! Now I know to replace that habit!
thank you so much ! you solved my puzzle ！
EXCELLENT PRESENTATION...
THANKS
1. Have you ever made a video evaluating Protein Bars?
Would appreciate your input on protein bars.
2. Is there a way to read text of your videos - I ADORE chocolate but couldn’t make a list of the healthy chocolates. Thank you.
3. Thanks for your videos. They are wonderful fact-based information.
To make a list of the healthy chocolates, you can pause the video.
⚘ THANK YOU SO MUCH!
9:62 Lindt is also on the cadmium table near to the bottom, 10:30 low lead brands 16:29
Hi! Good news for us cacao lovers! I found a common sense article on the Soma Cacao website addressing hype stirred up by an unscientific Consumer Reports story that she may be referencing here. Their customers had voiced concern as well. I am NOT Affiliated in any way, but found it as I searched for more info. I am enjoying my cacao as I’m writing this.
Amazing work Doctor. You are so far ahead of the herd of many other soc med health influencers. Who...uniformly tout the benefits of dark chocolate without nary a mention of heavy metal contamination!
❤such good information, thanks❤❤
So interesting! What about carob? Does it have any polyphenols, cadmium or lead?...I am in south America and I love my cacao nibs and powders, now I am wondering, how to figure out if they are heavy on the metals, or if any brands here have even been tested. Doubt my local cacao farm ever tested anything. Maybe I can only test my own blood to see 😂....also, if you made a separate video for just the lists of brands that are better/worse for chocolate, also bread, and any other good/worse brand comparisons, that would be super usefull!!! 30 sec is not long enough!!! You already did so much work figuring it out, amazing 🎉 would make it soo so easy to go one by one w the breakdown Comparison. Or an alphabet ranking (a,b,c,deep, tier) type of video would also be great and probably algorithm friendly. 😊 please please. And another video for cacao powder brand comparisons!!
Omg I love love chocolate I'm so happy I saw this time to make changes thank you
You have given me pause for concern. I occasionally enjoy 90% cocoa Lindt chocolate bars, but only have 1 square per day when I have the bar. I use cocoa powder when I make sweet potato nice cream. Time for me to switch to carob powder and forgo the chocolate bar.
16:28 The top brand there on polyphenols was also CR's best ranked source overall, including for contaminants, and it seems like that deserved a mention. It had "77 percent of CR's lead limit and 17 percent of the cadmium limit."
Consumer Reports use California's maximum allowable dose level (MADL) for lead (0.5 micrograms) and cadmium (4.1mcg).
Note that California's cadmium limit is almost 7x higher than EU's cadmium limit for cocoa powder (0.6 mcg)😬
@@tiararoxeanne1318 Incorrect. There is a great deal of misinformation that is spread via social media, unfortunately. That cadmium standard is for cocoa in a sweetened / blended product, so it is diluted. For products equal to or greater than 50% cacao solids, the EU standard is 0.8mg/kg, so again this is for some kind of a blended product with high-solids / dark. For non-blended product, the standard is a maximum of 0.8ppm. The product mentioned here easily meets those standards.
@@tiararoxeanne1318 I replied but it appears to have been deleted or ghosted. The EU standard for non-blended (100% product or beans) is 0.8 ppm.
I could not see your charts, can you add a link to view them? I Really appreciate your research and sharing this important info since I have developed OA in my knees and neck. I'm over 60 but started eating dark chocolate for heart health.
In case you don't know, the cog icon in the upper right corner has playback speed options
If you go to the description area under the video and then click on the chapters below the description, she pauses on each chart. If you can't find a chart she showed, you can watch the video, pause on that chart, and then take a snapshot.
Ok so living kills you!
What about using organic cacao powder to make hot chocolate instead of using cocoa powder?
Thank you for this video - my teenage son likes to make chocolate milk and I have been looking for a replacement since I saw the consumer report on lead in chocolate (though I didn’t see in that report that they test nesquick or Ovaltine). I will get that brand from target and make our own mix. Except that the Good and Gather chocolate chips are high in lead and that powder chart you were showing was referencing cadmium. Wonder if I can find out the lead levels in their cocoa powder?
Hi doc what do you suggest for dark chocs? ❤
Hope you might consider a video on heavy metal detox; a complicated, controversial subject.
I use Zindt cacao powder in my coffee every day.
Thank you
I'm confused. I mix 1/2 tsp Guittard grand cacao with coffee. Is this safe? If not, can you please suggest a better alternative from Sprouts?
Woah…….i am truly a chocoholic!! In the last 15 years since having children I have always bought the “really” good organic chocolate…..now I’m just in a daze…😅
We have slolightly different products in Canada what about ‘Camino’ I did not see that on your list. I always try to buy green and blacks. I was in greneda in the Carribean and saw where it was harvested. Good and clean!!! But now all this info…..my head is spinning!!
So…the cocoa powder I use is from Peru and the Dominican Republic and is Dutch processed. Time to switch brands or skip the powder altogether. Thanks for opening my mind to the realities of cocoa powder and chocolate.
Navitas Cacao powder is my favorite and on her good list with high flavonols.
@@jf1890yaaayyy! I buy this!
@@jf1890Thanks for your reply. That is what I am using now too, Nativa cacao powder. I have to go to a health food store to get it but it is worth the trip.
Raworganic 100 pct. cacao power is light and tasteless and I wonder if have much polypheols?
If you look at the transcript, then go to the place in the video (e.g., 9:22 for high cadmium levels), you can stop the video and zoom in to see the graphic.
I'm scared going to the supermarket .We are learning all the time to get better choices but it looks like that quality of food has gone down over time..It should be institution which can randomly check quality of our food and chase up trickers ..
Hahaha like te FDA😂
@@sheilahtaylor3005 more important than FDA because it will prevent from chronic diseases...
It seems that the more information we collect on the foods we eat, our choices become less and less until nothing is safe to eat.
What about organic chocolate?
that is about right... and we are responsible for our own health as a whole, as we are irresponsible for how we treat our waste products and have polluted the air, soil, water...hence what you do to the environment you do to yourself...
Well from my understanding on studying zeolite clinoptliolite, you can reduce or eliminate both cadmium, lead and other heavy metals there's a lot of research on this and there's also articles with research on the national institute of health websites. So check that out. Zeolite has also been used at Chernobyl add Fukushima to contain an attract radiation
Jillian Michael's has a breakfast recipe that includes cocoa nibs. I have been eating them in smoothies for over a year. I wish I knew this before.
CR found Navitas brand safest, I order online direct from the manufacturer to make hot chocolate and for baking. Great taste!
As a kid chocolate would make my face blister out, since I was allergic to it
I can't get the info down, and I can't read the picture attachment cause they're too small. Too fast.
Scary story:
Some of my powdered pigments I use in my traditional egg tempera art work is cadmium. 90 grams of light cadmium red and 120 grams cadmium yellow, and others. Very permanent colors, long term.
Great video, very informative. Why aren't Cadmium % listed on labels? I bought Organic Cacao from Costco but I see it's from Peru and I assume high in Cadmium
I put dark chocalate in my coffee!!
Does the list of low lead levels also have low cadmium levels?
Ruby chocolate ? This is the very first time I've ever heard of it.
☹️ Awwwwman! I love dark chocolate. I'll have to check out the recommendations.
I've had the ruby chocolate. There was a fruity echo to the flavor, but I prefer something with more bite. I also very much dislike fruit/ chocolate combo.
You say the Bensdorp Kakao brand has the most flavonols but in the next breath you advise us to stay away from Dutch processed cocoa powders because they do not have flavonols. Bensdorp's brand is all dutched so how can it contain any flavonols? This is contradictory, please clarify.
Very interesting video, but I'm not sure what the bottom line is. To get max flavonols and minimum cadmium/lead, what's the best choice? Montezuma's best for cadmium, but no info on lead or flavonols . . . alternate Montezuma's with Endangered Species??? No flavonol info given on chocolate, only for cocoa powders. I'm mostly after flavonols, but want to reduce the toxic stuff. Maybe just stick with hot chocolate made with Good & Gather unsweetened cacao powder???
I was also on the quest of finding chocolate without toomuch heavy metals but I didn't succeed. The problem is that under the same brand sometimes there is not much cadmium and sometimes there is. So basically I just stopped buying Cadbury and brands from the list. The word 'organic' is usually helpful
How can I find out about guittard organic chocolate wafers. I eat them all day. Where do u look up the info
How does Peru have the highest Cd than the other countries? Do thay add it to the fertilizer or use pesticide spray or does Peru have high levels in the ground?
cocoa powder not bad
cocoa mass. Good
I got it in Philippines,pure caocao tablets. Pure cacao
Hi,
I probably heard you incorrectly but I think I recall in a past video you said something about how the effects of fructose/ fruit sugar is not adequately measured by using a glucose meter (glucose vs fructose). I just wanted to check in and see what you thought about that? If it’s true or not.
Yes. Table sugar is Sucrose which is glucose and fructose. Wheat Starch is amylose which is made from glucose links. This is why white breads elevate blood sugar higher than pure table sugar.
I would share this video with my family but there is no detailed info written to help in the shopping of good chocolate/cacao. The video zooms with not much in detailed brands. I guess we need a consumer reports subscription as that reference was mentioned several times. Great unshareable info is no info😢
Thank you so much for letting me know that, but also, there are some candy bars that have long ingredients and that has chemicals that I don’t know what they mean of, and sometimes they put chemicals in, so won’t get the food moldy, but it’s actually is not edible and sometimes people don’t know that, and sometimes it has a long list of ingredients and chemicals. In other words of it. Sometimes you don’t know what that means that happens to me and it’s hard to make sense of but they put secret chemicals in it so you won’t realize what it has, which is really confusing, so if you have time in your next video, can you explain the bad chemicals and the definition of them that are in some types of foods that are not good for you .
What about brewed cacao?
Can you review Blueprint Bryan Johnson Non Dairy Cocoa Powder - 7.5% Flavanols, 100% Pure Cocoa, Low Fat Unsweetened Cocoa, Undutched, Keto Friendly, Great for Baking & Cooking, Tested for Heavy Metals (12 Ounces)?
What would stop the producers from buying cacao from another farm and still have the labeling the same? So the toxic amounts could change and you would never know it?
I can't do undutched chocolate--my body has an allergic type response to it--gives me hives. I don't know why.
how to read those small info i am not technical person please help domj have link to that chart
Need the list, the video goes so fast, it is kinda of frustrating
In case you don't know, the cog icon in the upper right corner has playback speed options
@@evianevans292 Sure, but I don't understand why she didn't just put a link in her description to the list?
I like to ask you a question. I ordered dark chocolate to cacao powder produce and Peru organic. Is it safe?
Unless it’s on the list, it’s hard to tell unless the company has tested it on its own.
Ruby chocolate does taste of red berries, but it's very expensive.
Very interesting!
Until recently, here in the UK I was regularly buying a 1kg tub of Raw Organic Cacao powder on Amazon, but then I heard about this heavy metal contamination, and that stopped me dead in my tracks.
Presumably, there is no published info on a product like that?
Consumer labs, consumer reports or ask the company to send them their own testing
@@Healthyimmunedoc
Thankyou.
Another brand of Organic Cacao Powder is advertised as ‘EU Organic’ and sourced from Sierra Leone.
You mentioned the EU has stringent limits on heavy metal content, so labelled as above is it likely it meets safe levels?
I think I may have overdone chocolate dark sometimes milk chocolate my cartilage is disappearing my hip and rheumatoid arthritis
What are the numbers on good and gather cocoa powder lead/caldium if you you dont mind thanks i know you show the caldium but not the lead numbers thanks again
I mostly use unsweetened cocoa/cacao powder if I use any chocolate at all ... did I miss which one of those is ok? 🙏Please help🙏
I usually just buy whichever baking cocoa/cacao powder they have at Costco (usually organic there) when I run out, but now I'm wondering if those are really bad, or what 😳
Very informative video, thank you.... however saturated fats are actually good for you
Dr.Liu do you have any food and diet suggestion for some suffering from psoriasis of scalp.
Eat non inflammatory foods, avoid sugar. Search google for list of non inflammatory foods
Can I drink cocoa powder with milk
So what about the organic cacao powder