Coffee — heavy metals & overall contaminant load
Counter Culture Forty-Six
Organic dark-roast specialty blend in CLP’s Clean 16, with unusually strong public sourcing transparency and an exact live product-page image.
VerdictBest current clean-coffee pick in the repo, because the test result, sourcing story, and image verification all line up cleanly.
Why it ranks
CLP’s Coffee Study put Counter Culture Forty-Six in the Clean 16, the lowest composite contaminant tier across heavy metals, pesticides, phthalates, glyphosate / AMPA, acrylamide, and mycotoxin screening. I move it to #1 within that tie because Counter Culture also gives unusually strong public sourcing context: transparently traded language, long-term producer relationships, B Corp status, and a current exact product-page image that is easy to verify.
Highlights
- CLP Clean 16 — composite contaminant ranking
- Organic dark roast in a bagged format
- Counter Culture product page emphasizes transparently traded sourcing and long-term partners
- Exact live product image verified from the brand product page
- Bagged coffee aligns with CLP’s lower-phthalate pattern vs cans and many pods
Caveats
- Dark roast is not automatically “cleaner” in every metric, it just paired well with this exact CLP composite result
- Like all coffee, batch and harvest origin can change over time
Testing method
ICP-MS + GC-MS + LC-MS panel (Ellipse Analytics)