The Ultimate List of Surprisingly Vegan Candies

Posted by Faith on October 29, 2024

Did you know that some candies contain gross ingredients like crushed bugs (aka “carmine”) and bones (aka “gelatin”)?! Yes, there are sweets out there that are actually made with cartilage, cow skin, and food coloring made from ground-up bugs. SICK!

Luckily, there are lots of candies that are “accidentally vegan”—and we’ve got a list of the best ones:

Airheads

Atomic Fireballs

Big League Chew

Bottle Caps

Brach’s Lemon Drops

Charms Blow Pops

Chick-O-Stick

Cocomels

Cry Baby (except for Cry Baby Chews)

DOTS

Dum Dums

Endangered Species Chocolate Not So Spooky – Halloween Shaped Dark Chocolate

Enjoy Life Chocolate Bars

Fun Dip

Go Max Go Candy Bars

Hershey’s Plant Based Oat Chocolate Confection Almond & Sea Salt Candy Bar

Hu Chocolate Bars (except for milk chocolate bars)

Jolly Rancher Hard Candy and Lollipops

Joyride Sour Fruit Gummies

Jujyfruits

Lindt OatMilk Classic Recipe Chocolate Bar

Lovely Candy Company Organic Sour Chewy Candies

Mary Jane

Nerds (avoid products with “carmine” on the ingredient list)

Now & Later (except for the “Chewy” varieties)

No Whey! Foods Cookie Bars

Pascha White Bar

Pixy Stix

Red Vines

Reese’s Plant Based Oat Chocolate Confection & Peanut Butter Cups

Sanders Sea Salt Caramels (except for the milk chocolate varieties)

SJAAK’S Melk Chocolate Bar

Smarties

SmartSweets Sweet Fish

Super Bubble

Surf Sweets Gummies (except for “Gummy Worms” and “Gummy Bears)

SweeTARTS Original

Taza Cacao Crunch

TCHO Chocolate

Twizzlers

UNREAL Halloween Dark Chocolate Coconut Bars Box

YumEarth Organic Fruit Snacks

Zotz