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    Vegan Candy List – The Ultimate Guide (2023)

    Last updated on Dec 27, 2022 by Adam Bryan. This post may contain affiliate links.

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    Vegan Candy Listing
    Did you know that some candies actually contain animal ingredients? It may sound crazy but it’s true!

    Some extremely popular candies are actually made from things like gelatin, milk, and even bugs (for some red colorings.)

    Now trying to find the perfect vegan candy can be quite tricky, especially if you have no idea what ingredients are in your favorite candy bars.

    But don’t worry, we got you covered!

    Below, you’ll find a complete listing of all candies that are animal-free. But before we get to the vegan candy listing, you must first know about the main ingredients you need to look for when trying to find animal-free candies.

    Non-Vegan Ingredients To Watch Out For

    There are a few ingredients you need to watch out for when looking for vegan candies.

    1. Gelatin – Gelatin is made by boiling the skin, tendons, ligaments, and bones of pigs and cows.

    2. Shellac – Shellac is a resin secreted by the female lac bug, on trees in the forests of India and Thailand that gives the candy a glossy appearance (aka confectioners glaze).

    3. Carmine – Carmine is a red pigment is made from some scale insects such as the cochineal scale and certain Porphyrophora species.

    4. Bone Char – Bone Char is the bones form cattle that is used to process sugar, while also giving it that bright white appearance. You can learn more about bone char and it’s alternatives by checking out this in-depth article by PETA.

    Okay so now that you know which ingredients to look for in candy, let’s go straight into the animal-free candy listing!

    Vegan Candy List

    Here’s the complete listing of all the candies that are vegan, most of which are approved by PETA.

    Please note that ingredients always change so this listing may not always be 100% accurate. Also, even though most of these candies are approved by PETA to be vegan, some may be 99.9% vegan.

    Airheads

    Atkins Peanut Butter Bar

    Big League Chew

    Blow Pops

    Bottlecaps

    Brach’s Cinnamon Hard Candy

    Brach’s Hi-C Fruit Slices

    Brach’s Hi-C Orange Slices

    Brach’s Root Beer Barrels

    Brach’s Star Brites

    Charm Lollipops

    Chew-et’s Peanut Chews

    Chick-O-Sticks

    Chocolove Dark Chocolate Bar

    Chocolove Cherries and Almonds Dark Chocolate Bar

    Chocolove Crystallized Ginger Dark Chocolate Bar

    Chocolove Orange Peel Dark Chocolate Bar

    Chocolove Raspberry Dark Chocolate Bar

    Chick-O-Sticks

    Cry Babies

    Dem Bones

    Dots

    Dum-Dums

    Fireballs

    Fruit By the Foot

    Fruit Roll-Ups

    Fun Dip

    Gobstoppers

    Goldenberg’s Peanut Chews

    Hubba Bubba Bubblegum

    Jolly Ranchers (Lollipops and Hard Candy)

    Jujubes

    Jujyfruits

    Laffy Taffy

    Lance Peanut Bar

    Lemonheads

    Mamba Fruit Chews

    Mary Janes (Regular and Peanut Butter Kisses)

    Nerds

    Now and Later

    Panda Licorice

    Pez

    Pixy Stix

    Red Vines

    Ring Pops

    Skittles

    Smarties (U.S. Brand)

    Smart Sweets (all flavors except fruit gummy bears)

    Sour Patch Kids

    Starburst Minis

    Super Bubble

    Swedish Fish

    Sweet Tarts

    Twizzlers

    Zotz

    …

    Thank you so much for reading and if you have any other vegan candy suggestions that you would like to see added to this listing, please leave a comment below.

    Looking for more vegan chocolate?

    Be sure to check out our new, complete listing of vegan chocolate bar brands.

    Thanks again for reading and be sure to SHARE this plant-based candy list with anyone you know would find it beneficial.

    Cheers.

    P.S. Be sure to check out our in-depth vegan alcohol list and vegan snack list too! (And for peanut or tree nut allergies, you can cross reference the vegan peanut free candy options in this listing.

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    Comments

    1. Anonymous

      June 11, 2022 at 8:48 pm

      Mambas are not vegan they have gelatin

      Reply
    2. Peacefeline

      January 09, 2022 at 6:32 pm

      Unfortunately lemon heads and the other flavors of heads list shellac as an ingredient. Not vegan 🙁

      Reply
    3. Asher

      May 07, 2021 at 2:36 am

      Can I please get a list of all vegan candies

      Reply
    4. Birth

      July 28, 2020 at 4:31 pm

      🙁

      Reply
    5. Lisa Ryan

      October 30, 2019 at 1:05 pm

      Mamba, Nerds, and Sour Patch may now all contain animal based ingredients 🙁

      Reply
    6. Anonymous

      September 30, 2019 at 7:34 pm

      Wheat is vegan.

      Reply
    7. Anonymous

      July 30, 2019 at 4:00 pm

      Which is vegan.

      Reply
    8. June

      October 25, 2018 at 1:16 am

      Thank you

      Reply
    9. Leslie Jacobs

      August 15, 2018 at 4:54 pm

      Twizzlers have wheat flour.

      Reply
    10. Christina Toti

      February 26, 2018 at 1:38 pm

      Hot Tamales?

      Reply
    11. Louann

      July 25, 2017 at 8:11 pm

      What about Bit ‘o Honeys?

      Reply
      • Jayda

        February 01, 2018 at 10:29 pm

        Honey…

      • Marilyn

        October 08, 2018 at 4:37 am

        Bit o honey has milk in it.

    12. Dre

      March 20, 2017 at 8:04 am

      Many of these candies listed are not vegan. Sugar, not defined as brown or raw cane is most likely white and processed with bone char. Confectioners glaze crushed bugs. As for all the artificial dyes/colors/flavors….would you really to eat that anyways?

      Reply
    13. Simon

      February 28, 2017 at 12:36 pm

      What about the food coloring? In sour patch kids they list yellow 5&6, red 40, and blue 1. As far as I am aware, all four of those are tested on animals. Please correct me if I am mistaken but surely that does not count as vegan?

      Reply
    14. Michelle

      February 24, 2017 at 10:59 am

      I am looking at the ingredients of Swedish Fish and my bag lists Beeswax as one of the ingredients. Not Vegan 🙁

      Reply
    15. Josh

      February 04, 2017 at 6:47 pm

      Lemonheads are not vegan. They contain confectioner’s glaze.

      Reply
    16. Cat

      December 19, 2016 at 4:05 pm

      Umm, don’t smarties have milk chocolate in them?

      Reply
      • SD

        December 22, 2016 at 4:14 pm

        This is Smarties US brand: http://www.smarties.com/

    17. Nancy stone

      November 05, 2016 at 9:00 pm

      Gobstoppers are not vegan they have carmine which is crushed bugs

      Reply
    18. Mystique

      September 27, 2016 at 11:32 pm

      Starburst Minis Unwrapped has confectioners glaze as the last ingredient. So disappointed.

      Reply
    19. Rachael

      May 20, 2016 at 1:08 am

      Nerds are not vegan either if you get the strawberry or the rainbow that mixes them (or any red colors I assume) Because of carmine.

      Reply
    20. Willow

      May 16, 2016 at 6:13 pm

      Now and Later SOFT is NOT vegan. Contains egg whites 🙁

      Reply
    21. Becky

      April 09, 2016 at 7:29 pm

      Laffy Taffy contains egg albumen. Not vegan. Bummer!

      Reply
    22. Jena Chambers

      April 05, 2016 at 3:23 am

      Pandora’s Pops, plant-powered candies, are also vegan!

      Reply
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        October 07, 2016 at 1:34 am

        Thank you,these look amazing.

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