So even though the grocery stores have been hawking Halloween candy since the 4th of July, I figure some of you are like me and you buy your stash at the last minute – like, two weeks before the Big Day. 
Really, I buy candy ON Halloween Day so that I’m less likely to eat it all before it’s time to give it out. If I had it sitting around the house for a month I would totally eat it – I simply CAN NOT have candy just sitting around. And when I buy Halloween candy, I get the kinds I DON’T like. Again, so I won’t eat it. Actually, I don’t really LOVE Halloween – I mean, you’re opening your door to people wearing masks. The little kids are OK - it’s the big ones that give me the shivers. Anyway, I digress…
Vegan Halloween Candy
VegNews just posted a list of vegan Halloween candy. Here is their list, plus some more that I found while perusing the web. Don’t cave in! Stick to your vegan values and offer up these vegan Halloween candy treats**:
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- Airheads taffy
- Angel Mints (Florida Candy Factory)
- Atkins peanut butter bars
- Brach’s Cinnamon Hard Candy
- Brach’s Fruit Slices
- Charms lollipops
- Charms Blo-Pops
- Chick-o-Sticks
- Cracker Jack
- Cry Babies
- Dem Bones
- Dots
- Dum-Dums
- Equal Exchange Dark Chocolate Bites
- Fireballs
- Goelitz Confections brand vegan candy corn
- Goldenberg’s Peanut Chews
- Go Max Go candy bars (vegan versions of 3 Muskateers, Snickers, Almond Joy, Milky Way)
- Hubba Bubba bubblegum
- Jolly Ranchers (lollipops and hard candy)
- Jujubees
- Jujyfruits
- Lemonheads
- Mambas
- Mary Janes (regular and peanut butter kisses)
- Now and Later
- Paul Newman’s Orange Dark Chocolate
- Peanut Butter Bars
- Popcorn Balls (The Humphrey Company)
- Pure Fun Lemon, Lime, and Orange Slices
- Ring Pop lollipops
- Root Beer Barrels
- Skittles
- Smarties (U.S. Brand)
- Sour Patch Kids
- Starburst Jelly Beans
- Super Bubble
- Swedish Fish
- Sweet Tarts
- Surf Sweets Sour Berry Bears
- Tropical Source candy bars and mini chocolate bags
- Twizzlers
- Vegan Nougat (Australian Nougat Company)
- VerMints
- Wonka Bottlecaps
- Zotz
** These all contain sugar that may or may not have been processed through bone chard. If you want to avoid non-vegan sugar, you might need to give out boxes of raisins or apples (did you know that no one has ever actually found a razor blade in a Halloween apple?). And, some of the above may also have trace amounts of animal body parts and secretions, so you may want to carefully check the labels if that is a concern to you.
If you are wondering about other candy that is not on this list, here are some non-vegan ingredients to watch out for:
- Gelatin, carmine, rennet, pepsin, lard
- Milk chocolate
- Casein, whey
- Butter
- Lactose
- Honey
- Beeswax
- Calcium mesoinositol hexaphosphate
- Lactose
- Sperm oil
- Spermaceti
Also -the following “E” numbers:
- 120 (cochineal/insects/carmine)
- 542 (derived from bone)
- 901 (beeswax)
- 904 (shellac/insects)
- 920 (L-cysteine hydrochloride; derived from hair and feathers)
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thank goodness…we can get Skittles. kids seem to love them, I hate them and won’t eat them, and they’re vegan. perfect!
Great list! Thanks for posting this.
And thanks for your comment on my blog! I hadn’t thought of the faux chocolate for a pie filling. . . I think it might be too rich! With all that coconut oil, it’s very, very dense. But worth a try, anyway!
.-= Ricki´s last blog ..Flash in the Pan: I See Faux Chocolate in Your Future =-.
Hmm, not sure I want to know what sperm oil is or why it is in candy. I usually go for twizzlers or oreos when I need a sweet junk food fix. You can also check the PETA website for a list of vegan foods including snacks.
I am surprised to see Skittles in this list. I thought they contained both gelatin and red #40. Now I’m going to have to go check!
There’s a lot of controversy around skittles! They were at one time made with gelatin but apparently not any more. And there IS red 40, but contrary to the rumors that red 40 is carmine or cochineal, it’s actually derived from tar. YUM!
hooray. vegan candy!
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The last time I looked at the ingredients in Skittles, which was about 4 months ago (September 2010), they contained gelatin.