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From the OP article, some metals are exclusively from the beans (cadmium), others are introduced later (lead).

But yeah, every time you're eating plant material, there will be some trace level of heavy metal. And it just increases up the food chain.

Bioaccumulation is pretty cool as a phenomenon




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