Some protein powders, particularly plant-based and chocolate-flavoured varieties, have been found to contain heavy metals like lead and cadmium, according to a recent report out of the United States.

A new report has found that several brands of store-bought protein powders contain high levels of lead and cadmium. Plant-based, organic and chocolate-flavored products, in particular, had the ...

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A recent investigation by the Clean Label Project has raised concerns over the presence of heavy metals, including lead and cadmium, in many commercially available protein powders. The study ...

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Which heavy metals were found in protein powders? Lead and cadmium were found in a majority of the protein powders that were tested. There is no safe level of lead, which has been linked to ...

“Chocolate-flavored protein powders contained four times more lead and up to 110 times more cadmium than vanilla-flavored powders,” said Jaclyn Bowen, executive director of the Clean Label Projec ...

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