The Ultimate List of Surprisingly Vegan Candies

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

DOTS

Dum Dums

Enjoy Life Chocolate Bars

Fun Dip

Go Max Go Candy Bars

Hu Chocolate Bars

Jolly Rancher Hard Candy and Lollipops

Joyride Sour Fruit Gummies

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Jujubes

Jujyfruits

Lindt OatMilk Classic Recipe Chocolate Bar

Mamba

Mary Jane

Nerds

Now & Later

No Whey! Foods Cookie Bars

Pascha White Bar

Pixy Stix

Red Vines

Sanders Sea Salt Caramels

SJAAK’S Melk Chocolate Bar

Smarties

SmartSweets Sweet Fish

Super Bubble

Surf Sweets Gummies

SweeTARTS

Taza Cacao Crunch

TCHO Chocolate

Twizzlers

YumEarth Organic Fruit Snacks

Zotz

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