{"id":63913,"date":"2026-03-10T18:57:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T07:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=63913"},"modified":"2026-03-10T18:57:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T07:57:43","slug":"fake-chocolate-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=63913","title":{"rendered":"Fake Chocolate Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63914\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Fake_Chocolate.jpg\" alt=\"Fake Chocolate Warning\" width=\"450\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Fake_Chocolate.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Fake_Chocolate-262x300.jpg 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLab-grown chocolate is coming to shelves in 2027. Oreo, Cadbury and Toblerone are already funding the Israeli biotech producing it because a lab is cheaper than a farm\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCadbury has been quietly replacing your chocolate \u2014 This dairy milk isn&#8217;t legal chocolate in 27 countries, the cocoa butter was replaced with vegetable fat, a cheap blend of 6 industrial oils. What remains is diluted with polyglycerol \u2014 Soon even that gets replaced, you&#8217;ll be eating cells grown in a pharmaceutical tank\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cadbury Dairy Milk (in the UK and many markets) has included vegetable fats (like palm and shea) alongside cocoa butter for years. UK\/EU regulations allow up to 5% non-cocoa vegetable fats in chocolate if it meets minimum cocoa solids (20%) and other standards.<\/p>\n<p>In America standards are much lower<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; For milk chocolate specifically: Only 10% chocolate liquor, 12% milk solids, and 3.39% milk fat are required<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExposer flagged lead in cadmium traces with an ultra processing warning\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Click to view the video: https:\/\/x.com\/WallStreetApes\/status\/2030663365123875158?s=20<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLab-grown chocolate is coming to shelves in 2027. Oreo, Cadbury and Toblerone are already funding the Israeli biotech producing it because a lab is cheaper than a farm\u201d \u201cCadbury has been quietly replacing your chocolate \u2014 This dairy milk isn&#8217;t legal chocolate in 27 countries, the cocoa butter was replaced with vegetable fat, a cheap &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=63913\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fake Chocolate Warning&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63915,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63913\/revisions\/63915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}