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Carob based chocolate alternatives, like discussed in the article, are already on the market (have been since the 70s!) and they don't taste very good, so they're generally relegated to diet food from health food stores.

Carob based "chocolate" is good for dog treats, but I don't see humans getting excited about it any time soon.

Go buy some from Whole Foods if you don't believe me.






I actually like the taste of carob. But it is significantly different from the taste of chocolate.

The variation in taste is so weird and complicated that we use "a matter of taste" as a generic idiom.

It’s better than eating lead and cadmium at least.

(For those unaware, almost all popular brands of chocolate are contaminated with lead and cadmium)


All plant products are contaminated to one degree or another with unhealthy things the plants pulled out of the soil.

Look what Ancient Rome accomplished with lead pipes

but lead tastes yummy :(

It was used as a sweetener at one time…

Ehh just load up on cilantro, it's a natural chelator!



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