Chocolate and cocoa
Which dark chocolate brands have the lowest lead and cadmium?
This corpus does not contain verified lead or cadmium results for dark chocolate brands, so no brand is ranked. A draft food list names cocoa as a cadmium source from an EFSA opinion, but that list was not checked against a saved EFSA document and is not stated as fact. The cadmium page has the intake values that were verified.
What is not available
No bar-level or brand-level number was verified.
Related evidence, where it exists, is on the linked pages. Those pages do not fill this gap.
Related pages
Sources
Heavy Metal Index
Heavy Metal Index: chocolate. This Heavy Metal Index URL returned HTTP 200 on 15 October 2026. Figures on this page are not copied from that index. They come from the sources named above.
What's safe to buy
The Heavy Metal Tested and Certified public register listed no licensees on 15 October 2026. That page reported 0 certified brands and 0 certified products, and it stated that no brand has completed the three-lot baseline. A specimen layout on the register is an illustration, not a licensee. This page does not name or rank any brand.
The program states that certification is a measurement of a product against a published limit, not a statement that the product is safe. If a licensee is later listed for this category, it will be on the register.
This page summarizes cited documents. It does not diagnose or prescribe. Reviewed 15 October 2026.