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Hu Organic Dark Chocolate Baking Chips 65% Cacao

Organic Dark Chocolate Baking Chips 65% Cacao

20Avoid
USDA Organic

Contaminants · 4

2 at/over limit
From lab tests of this product’s family
Hu Dark Chocolate Gems & Chips
This product wasn’t tested · results may differ

In the family’s tests: measured by an independent lab and compared against published safety limits.

Cadmium58.2 ppbof 5 ppb
Over the limit — 12×FDA bottled-water Standard of Quality, 21 CFR 165.110(b) — 0.005 mg/L
Measured in: Organic Dark Chocolate Gems
Lead35.7 ppbof 5 ppb
Over the limit — 7.1×FDA bottled-water Standard of Quality, 21 CFR 165.110(b) — 0.005 mg/L
Measured in: Organic Dark Chocolate Gems
ArsenicNDof 10 ppb
Not detectedFDA bottled-water Standard of Quality, 21 CFR 165.110(b) — 0.010 mg/L (= EPA MCL)
Measured in: Organic Dark Chocolate Gems
MercuryNDof 2 ppb
Not detectedFDA bottled-water Standard of Quality, 21 CFR 165.110(b) — 0.002 mg/L
Measured in: Organic Dark Chocolate Gems

Ingredients · 3

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Common questions

Is Hu Organic Dark Chocolate Baking Chips 65% Cacao healthy?

Hu Organic Dark Chocolate Baking Chips 65% Cacao scores 20/100 on Tallow — our avoid band. That number comes from what is on the label: the ingredients, how processed it is, and what it is packaged in, plus lab results from its product family, Hu Dark Chocolate Gems & Chips. It is not a verdict on your diet — Tallow does not weigh calories, portion size or how often you eat it, so a high score means the ingredients are clean, not that the food is unlimited.

What is in Hu Organic Dark Chocolate Baking Chips 65% Cacao?

Hu Organic Dark Chocolate Baking Chips 65% Cacao lists 3 ingredients, starting with Organic Cacao, Organic Unrefined Coconut Sugar and Organic Cocoa Butter. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

Does Hu Organic Dark Chocolate Baking Chips 65% Cacao contain seed oils?

No. Nothing in Hu Organic Dark Chocolate Baking Chips 65% Cacao’s ingredient list matches a seed oil — canola, soybean, corn, cottonseed, grapeseed, sunflower, safflower, rice bran or peanut oil, or an unspecified "vegetable oil".

How processed is Hu Organic Dark Chocolate Baking Chips 65% Cacao?

Hu Organic Dark Chocolate Baking Chips 65% Cacao is NOVA group 3: processed, but not ultra-processed. NOVA runs 1 to 4, where 1 is whole food and 4 is ultra-processed.

How does Hu Organic Dark Chocolate Baking Chips 65% Cacao compare to other chocolate?

At 20/100 Hu Organic Dark Chocolate Baking Chips 65% Cacao scores worse than most chocolate we have scored. A higher-scoring option in chocolate is Hu Organic Hazelnut Butter + Hazelnut Crunch Milk Chocolate at 100/100.

Is Hu Organic Dark Chocolate Baking Chips 65% Cacao organic?

Yes. Hu Organic Dark Chocolate Baking Chips 65% Cacao carries USDA Organic certification, which is worth +5 points in the score above.

Has Hu Organic Dark Chocolate Baking Chips 65% Cacao been lab tested?

Not this product itself. It shares a base recipe (Cacao, coconut sugar, cocoa butter; baking format) with the other products in its family, Hu Dark Chocolate Gems & Chips, and 1 product in its family has been lab tested. This product is scored with the worst result for each contaminant across those tests. Those results are in the family's Contaminants section above; its own results may differ.

Does Hu Organic Dark Chocolate Baking Chips 65% Cacao contain heavy metals?

Hu Organic Dark Chocolate Baking Chips 65% Cacao itself has not been tested for heavy metals, but other products in its family, which share its base recipe, have: a lab detected cadmium at 58.2 ppb against a 5 ppb limit in Organic Dark Chocolate Gems and lead at 35.7 ppb against a 5 ppb limit in Organic Dark Chocolate Gems. This product is scored with the worst result for each contaminant across those tests. Its own results may differ.

Full methodology: how we score products.

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