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Heavy Metal Index
Brown cocoa beverage-mix powder in a dish and unmarked jar beside a cup of pale hot chocolate illustrating cocoa beverage mixes product-format context.

Heavy metals in Cocoa/hot-chocolate beverage mixes and malted drink powders

This page reports published measurements and their limitations. Compare values only when the product form, measurement basis, and metal species match.

0 related source records are associated with this category. This is a coverage count, not a measure of scientific confidence. References identify works cited in the text.

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Direct answer

For the question of which dark chocolate brands have the lowest lead and cadmium, this beverage-mix row does not name brands and has no lead or cadmium measurements filed on it. Cocoa powder and dark chocolate figures are on Cocoa and Chocolate.

v2.2 Step Zero scaffold — Category 5 (Beverages), Row 17. New row from the 2026-06-09 whole-taxonomy completeness audit; carries no candidate values yet. Routing destination; sources populate it as ingest proceeds, then synthesis fills the evidence sections.

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