Comment · Sat, March 12, 2022 · ND Owner
Is Chocamine more potent than normal cacao powder?
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Tubunnn · 22 points
Planning to do a cannabinoid altering experiment on myself soon.
I have in my cart Palmitoylethanolamide, Oleamide, Pterostilbene for the FAAH inhibiting effect.
Now I'm just wondering if Chocamine is a better of anandamide and FAAH inhibitors compare to raw cacao powder?
Any anecdote is appreciated!
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arcjive · 2 points
How does lead and cadmium even get into cocoa...?!
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
From the environment it grows in. Hershey's even argued that their chocolate and cocoa should not be subject to Prop65, as the heavy metals were naturally occurring.
Hershey’s head of corporate communications Jeff Beckman said that lead and cadmium were naturally present in soil and water with ‘harmless levels’ being absorbed by plants such as fruit, grains and cocoa.
“Prop 65 does not apply to low levels of minerals in food that are naturally occurring,” he said. “Prop 65 was designed to avoid ubiquitous warnings on foods due to the existence of minute quantities of minerals that exist naturally in the soil where food is grown.“
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/979/1/012011/pdf
Related to lead contamination in the cocoa beans, especially in some African countries, Rankin et al. [13] and Manton [21] hypothesized to derive from the atmospheric emission of leaded gasoline, (which is still used in the countries) during fermentation and drying of the cocoa beans. As stated by Ellen [22], lead can be very harmful even at low concentrations if taken for a long period. After absorption, lead is initially distributed in soft tissue throughout the body via blood and then deposited in bone. It may cause damage to kidneys, cardiovascular, central nervous, and reproductive system [10].