Number 3 in the Oxalate Dirty Dozen: dark chocolate. Dark chocolate is so popular! Low to no sugar but extremely high in oxalate, people often believe they are supporting their magnesium levels. But the magnesium in chocolate likely ends up bound to oxalate and unavailable.
The most recent testing of dark chocolate from Lindt (90% cocoa) had 1 piece (10g) at over 40 mg oxalate; 3 pieces (30g or about 1 ounce) was over 120 mg oxalate. That’s more than a day’s worth of oxalate in a very small “treat”.
I recently got myself in trouble with a low carb ice cream that used dark chocolate bits. I thought the calcium in the ice cream would help to bind some of the oxalate. But at such high concentrations of oxalate, even someone who knows oxalate well got in trouble.
It then takes time to get out of your system, which has meant compromise of my sleep, unhappy digestion and some symptoms I haven’t seen for some time. Note that Epsom salt baths can be very good! You get magnesium to support minerals. Can use Dead Sea salt too.
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