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Tons of Vegan Candy To
Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth
Looking for some vegan candy?
Quite a few of your favorite childhood candy treats are made with animal ingredients.
The most common ingredients are gelatin (made from animal bones and tendons), milk fat, 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 or Easter, 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. Sometimes you can even find natural candy made without the harmful dyes and flavorings.
I also love the Natural Candy Store online, where everything they sell is made without high fructose corn syrup, artificial colors, artificial dyes, or hydrogenated oils. There's a whole section under special diets for candy, and I feel like it's the best selection on the internet.
Vegan Chocolate Halloween Candy
These are a few vegan chocolate candies that you are individually wrapped, so you could offer them at Halloween:
- Mint Mills from Sjaak's
- Peanut Butter Cups by Justin's
- Butterscotch Candy by Yummy Earth
- Chocolate Beans (like M&Ms)
- Hazelnut Butter Cups by Sjaak's
Vegan Candy List
You don't have to special order all of your candy just to make sure it's vegan. 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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