Vegan Candy To Cure Your Sugar Cravings

Unfortunately, a good amount of candy is often made with some type of animal ingredients.

The most common ones are gelatin (made from animal bones and tendons), milkfat, eggs, carmine (or Natural Red 4, made from beetles), rennet (enzyme from cow stomachs), pepsin (another stomach enzyme), lard (pig fat), E 904, E 120, 901, 904, 542 (all are from animals), or even just sugar that is processed with charred bone fragments.

The good news is that there are plenty of candies that pass the test and don't have any animal ingredients in them, so whether you need an everyday fix or just want a vegan Halloween, rejoice!

I'm not going to say these are all healthy candies, as many are still made with High Fructose Corn Syrup, but they are officially vegan.

Vegan Chocolate Halloween Candy:

• Mint Mills from Sjaak's
• Peanut Butter Cups by Allison's Gourmet
• Organic Extra Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups for Halloween by Sjaak's
• Earth Balls by Sunspire (like malted milk balls)
• Organic Chimp Mints

Plenty of the candy that you can find in a grocery store is actually vegan, accidentally. Here's a list of candy without animal products, as approved by PETA:

The Chewy Candies:

• Airheads taffy
• Dots
• Jujubees
• Jujyfruits
• Mambas
• Mike & Ike's
• Now and Later
• Skittles (now gelatin-free)
• Sour Patch Kids
• Swedish Fish
• Twizzlers

The Lollipops:

• Blow Pops
• Charms lollipops
• Dum-Dums
• Ring Pop lollipops

Hard Candies:

• Brach’s Cinnamon Hard Candy
• Cry Babies
• Dem Bones
• Fireballs
• Gobstoppers
• Jolly Ranchers (lollipops and hard candy)
• Lemonheads
• Pez
• Smarties (U.S. Brand)
• Sweet Tarts

Vegan Gum:

• Hubba Bubba bubblegum
• Super Bubble

Old Fashioned Candy:

• Atkins peanut butter bars
• Chick-o-Sticks
• Cracker Jack
• Goldenberg's Peanut Chews
• Mary Janes (regular and peanut butter kisses)
• Zotz

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