Consumer Reports said on Wednesday it had found "concerning" levels of lead and cadmium in a third of various chocolate products it tested recently, and called on Hershey to reduce the amounts of heavy metals in its chocolate.
  • Bell@lemmy.world
    37·
    2 years ago

    A confused spokesperson for Hershey argued that none of their products actually contain real chocolate.

    • pdxfed@lemmy.world
      221·
      2 years ago

      Cannot be sold as chocolate in the EU for two reasons;

      1.it doesn’t contain the menial amount(10%!) of chocolate required to be labeled as such.

      1. No one wants to buy that awful tasting shit
      • tacosplease@lemmy.world
        4·
        2 years ago

        Pretty sure the percentage of milk fat is also too low for American Hershey’s chocolate to be classified as chocolate in Europe.