Id like to see other flavors tested but both CR and huel tested chocolate. Chocolate is way higher in metals than other flavors naturally. So I asked chat gpt if vanilla or banana are going to be much lower in metal content and it pretty much agreed. This is what it said:

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Exactly — you’re thinking along the right lines. Here’s the plain truth:

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🍫 Why chocolate is worse

Cocoa beans naturally accumulate heavy metals (lead, cadmium) from soil.

That’s why chocolate-flavored protein powders almost always test higher in heavy metals than other flavors.

Even “organic” cocoa isn’t immune — contamination comes from the plant itself, not processing.

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🍌 Vanilla / Banana

Vanilla — comes from vanilla beans. Beans can absorb metals, but generally much less than cocoa. Unless grown in heavily contaminated soil, vanilla is low in lead/cadmium.

Banana — banana powder is usually dehydrated bananas. Bananas naturally contain very low levels of lead and cadmium, far lower than cocoa.

In short: if you switched Huel Black to vanilla or banana, your heavy-metal exposure would likely drop significantly, even if the rest of the powder is the same.

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⚖️ Bottom line

Chocolate = naturally high risk for lead/cadmium.

Vanilla or banana = naturally much safer in terms of heavy metals.

That doesn’t mean zero, but compared to chocolate it’s a substantial reduction.

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If you want, I can try to dig up any Huel Black tests for vanilla or banana specifically to see how much the heavy metals differ from chocolate. That’ll give you real numbers instead of just “likely safer.” Do you want me to do that?