[dizzymisslizzy]

Halloween is coming up, and I thought it might be useful to know some vegan candies. Most of these are from the PETA website, others I found out on my own. Hope you find this helpful!

Airheads

Blow Pops

Dem Bones

Dots

Dum-Dums

Fireballs

Hot Tamales

Jolly Ranchers (lollipops and hard candy)

Jujubees

Jujyfruits

Mentos

Mike and Ike's

Now and Later

Pez

Ring Pop lollipops

Smarties (U.S. Brand)

Sour Patch Kids

Starburst (jelly beans and hard candy)

Swedish Fish

Sweet Tarts

Twizzlers

Please add to this any candy/treats you have found to be vegan!

 

[SusieKay]

Are you sure about the Now and Laters? A while back I bought some and I could have sworn the banana ones at least said they had egg whites in them.

 

[m4rk0]

Twizzlers are vegan? Cool. I took my daughter to a movie the other night and didn't get any candy, thinking they were all non-vegan.

 

[Laura_I]

Another option is something that my vegan sister is doing. She said she felt guilty "aiding childhood obesity" So she bought a bunch of stickers and glow in the dark bugs off of ebay for practically nothing and she's going to hand those out. It sounds like a good idea to me and I might do it too.

 

[codemonkey]

Red Vines are vegan. They're also crazy delicious and you can bite off the ends and use it as a straw.

 

[froggythefrog]

Quote:

Originally Posted by m4rk0

Twizzlers are vegan? Cool. I took my daughter to a movie the other night and didn't get any candy, thinking they were all non-vegan.

They might be... Red #40 is charcoal-derived, I think. The issue would be if they contained carmine (cochineal).

 

[codemonkey]

Red #40 is vegan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FD%26C_..._ALUMINUM_LAKE

 

[shineonyou]

is laffy taffy vegan?

 

[GhostUser]

That's weird.. last time I looked on a Twizzlers package, they weren't vegan.

 

[codemonkey]

Quote:

Originally Posted by shineonyou

is laffy taffy vegan?

Nope.

 

[Cissy]

uh, peta says it is, and I've never seen animal ingredients in the kinds I eat.

http://www.peta2.com/STUFF/s-eat.asp

 

[ChiKat]

I found the ingredients:

Corn Syrup, Hydrogenated Coconut Oil, Sugar and Less than 2% of Malic Acid, Egg Albumen, Sodium Alginate, Calcium Acetate, Mono- and Diglycerides, Artificial Flavors, Maltodextrin, Carnauba Wax, Blue 1, Red 3, Red 40 Lake.

(Egg albumen is the dried whites of an egg)

http://www.amazon.com/Wonka-Taffy-Ch.../dp/B000E5ASFI

 

[ChiKat]

Here's another list...

http://www.vegfamily.com/lists/vegan-candy.htm

 

[Lumos]

Has anyone ever found any vegan candy corn? I found some without gelatin, but not without egg whites. Candy corn is my favorite halloween candy and I'd enjoy having it again.

 

[ChiKat]

I know someone who found candy corn from jellybelly.com and it doesn't contain gelatin OR egg whites, however it does contain beeswax.

Apparantly this conversation is taking place here...

http://www.veggieboards.com/boards/s....php?p=1382370

 

[dropdeaddale]

Quote:

Originally Posted by veggiejanie

That's weird.. last time I looked on a Twizzlers package, they weren't vegan.

I think they might have changed their recipe because my friends told me they are (now) vegan. The only candy I've been eating are Sour Patch Kids and I eat them VERY RARELY because the amount of sugar on those things burns my tongue when I go overboard and eat 10 in 3 minutes and then I can't taste anything all week. Ha.

 

[froggythefrog]

I think that dust is citric acid.

 

[sunshinegal]

I hope Twizzlers changed their recipe. I wanted some a few months back and they were not vegan at the time. I instead got some swedish fish!

HAHA! I know all about the sour patch kids killing the tastebuds!

 

[Cissy]

Quote:

Originally Posted by KatherineLynn

I found the ingredients:

Corn Syrup, Hydrogenated Coconut Oil, Sugar and Less than 2% of Malic Acid, Egg Albumen, Sodium Alginate, Calcium Acetate, Mono- and Diglycerides, Artificial Flavors, Maltodextrin, Carnauba Wax, Blue 1, Red 3, Red 40 Lake.

(Egg albumen is the dried whites of an egg)

http://www.amazon.com/Wonka-Taffy-Ch.../dp/B000E5ASFI

this kind appears to be vegan (barring glycerides)

http://www.amazon.com/Wonka-Taffy-Ap...0DER&s=grocery

the wider ones seem to have the egg, while the mini ones and the rope ones appear to be egg free.

<<<adores laffy taffy.

 

[IamJen]

re: Twizzlers. In the US, the "regular" kind are vegan, but the rope ones (Pull and Peel I think they're called) contain glycerin, which the company has failed to identify, as of last summer, as either animal or vegetable based.