Say, just received a box of dark chocolate candies from Harry & David. Should I eat them??

[a kennedy]

Did anyone read that article about dark chocolate having metals in them?? Or am I making a big deal about it?

https://www.greenmatters.com/news/heavy-metals-found-in-dark-chocolate

[Ocelot II]

1. Eat them. You'd have to eat a lot of dark chocolate before it would be a serious problem,

and only of the listed brands. There's a reference to one ounce per day as not good, but one ounce per day for how long? They don't say. Per the linked article: "Fortunately, there’s no reason to renounce your taste for dark chocolate, Tunde Akinleye, a food safety researcher who led the CR report, asserts. CR recommends “choosing your dark chocolates wisely” — perhaps that means eating ones that were found to have lower levels of heavy metals."

[electric_blue68]

22. With the Amount of Dark Chocolate I've Eaten for Decades(!)... Don't have any problems as....

far as I can tell!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. Send them to me for a forensic analysis. Thanks in advance. NT

[Haggard Celine]

3. You should send them to me ASAP!

[tanyev]

4. Just don't eat the whole box at one time!

For many reasons.

[Dysfunctional]

7. That's my problem, eating a whole box of any candy.

I worked 3rd shift. Once a month I stayed late to attend a meeting for 6 people. At the first meeting, I attended the boss brought in a box of donut holes. I ate so many that from then on he brought in 2 boxes and put 1 of them in front of me. Everyone laughed, but by the end of the meeting, I had finished them. That was nothing to the time I had to wait at the dealer while my car was having an oil change and there were free Krispy Creme donuts.

[tanyev]

9. Oh, I know.

I do pretty well keeping that stuff out of my house, but my co-workers are constantly bringing in goodies to share and leaving them out in the breakroom. I usually succumb.

[Tree Lady]

12. Same way all or none

Once a taste of sugar, its a drug for me. I asked hubby to buy me some ginger thin cookies thinking not so bad. Had whole box gone in one day.

[electric_blue68]

24. Luckily for me I Don't have a major sweet tooth

[Tetrachloride]

5. Safety first OR you only live once.

[Lars39]

6. I could have scarfed them down in less time

than it took to type the question!

[DBoon]

8. was it a "candygram"?

If so, I'd be worried about being attacked by a landshark

[Leghorn21]

10. ...or

[ProfessorGAC]

11. It Will Be OK

First, the levels are still very low, just not low enough.
Second, the issues with lead & cadmium are cumulative. As long as you don't make a habit of wolfing down box after box each day, your system can still (very slowly) eliminate tiny amounts of metals.
Third, it's the richer, luxuriant dark chocolotes that are of the most concern because cocoa solids are substantially higher. That's why, for instance, the Mounds bar didn't show up on the concern list. Much cheaper chocolate. I don't the brand you mentioned, so I can't say what silo it fits in to.
But, one box of chocolate isn't going to hurt you.

[electric_blue68]

23. The more luxuriant ones are the ones I've been eating since ?the '90s...

Lindt, occasional smaller producer brands.

Lindt was high.

However I think (spelling?!) 🙄😄 Ghariheldi is rather lower, and I do like theirs, too. 👍

[doc03]

13. Go ahead and eat them next year they will say they cure

cancer.

[Me.]

14. THat Is Specifically REferencing Hershey's

“The Hershey Co. is being sued for allegedly failing to disclose the presence of lead and cadmium in several of its dark chocolate bars.

The proposed class action, brought by Christopher Lazazzaro of New York, comes two weeks after Consumer Reports sounded the alarm on dangerous heavy metals in dark chocolate bars from manufactures including Lindt, Ghirardelli and Hershey's.

For three of Hershey's dark chocolate bars, Consumer Reports said, just one ounce violates California's maximum allowable dose levels (MADL) for lead or cadmium: Hershey's Special Dark Mildly Sweet Chocolate, Lily's Extra Dark Chocolate 70% Cocoa, and Lily's Extreme Dark Chocolate 85% Cocoa.”

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/30/1146254933/hersheys-lawsuit-dark-chocolate-heavy-metals-lead

[sl8]

20. That's just the company named in that particular lawsuit. The Consumer Reports article lists others:

https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/lead-and-cadmium-in-dark-chocolate-a8480295550/

[Me.]

21. Thank You

very informative

[bamagal62]

15. I think there were also

a couple of Trader Joe’s products. But, not all of f them.

[whistler162]

16. How well do you know Harry and David?

can you trust them not to add metal to any chocolate they give to you?

[William Seger]

17. I've been loving dark chocolate my whole life

I don't believe it's had

[NNadir]

18. This circulating tale is another example of people who know little or no science making a...

...a terrifying representation on a subject they have no business raising.

I suspect pumping gasoline is more dangerous from a health perspective.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

19. Wear them and invite someone to eat them.