Read about companies I’ve spent countless hours researching so you don’t have to. Many of them will be family owned or small businesses that lack the resources to rapidly grow. If you want good quality, ethical chocolate, start here.
Trust Issues with Top Google Results One of the driving motivators for creating this blog was this very example I’m about to delve into. I did a simple Google search and typed in, “best healthy chocolate” and clicked the first result. I landed on a blog post for a website called Everyday Health that recommends … Read more
Captain’s Chocolate is a micro-business that ethically sources their chocolate from Costa Rica, which is quite rare from my research, as oppose to Peru, Ecuador, and African countries. They test their product and post the results, which can be seen here. They are probably the smallest business I’ll be reviewing. This is the first chocolate company I’ve seen that contains no lead.
Embue Cacao on paper has a lot of great qualities but some unforgivable. They are apart of a couple non-profits and they promote connecting with cacao in a spiritual manner. They have one major glaring issue that does not sit well with me. Embue maliciously downplays the importance of Prop 65 to their customers about the dangers of their the heavy metal content in their chocolate, of which is, in my opinion, dangerously high.
Hu Chocolate is one of the best examples of a terrible company that hits all the trending buzzwords in organic chocolate and renders their meanings useless (just look at that packaging). They test high in heavy metals and will not publicly post their results, they greenwash their customers about it, and there’s no mention of how and where they source their chocolate from. Hu Chocolate was started by wealthy owners that wanted to own a business and they landed on chocolate. That’s about as deep as it goes.
Chocolate has gotten a bad reputation over the past couple of years, and deservedly so, about the concern of heavy metals. And this is a very valid concern. Many chocolate companies had significantly higher than safely consumable levels of lead and cadmium in them that you have been unknowingly consuming for most of your life. … Read more
