Palm Oil Free Candy

We ran 1,802 candy through our palm oil free rules: 24 pass, 12 need a label check, and 344 don't make it.

Boiled sweets and gummies are mostly sugar and gelatin, so most pass. Chewy toffees, caramels, filled candies and anything with a shiny coating can carry palm fat, and licorice sometimes lists it as "vegetable oil". A hard candy that fails here usually does so because of a glazing fat, not the sweet itself.

You can eat these

Where the traps are

What actually disqualifies candy from a palm oil free diet, counted across 60 of the 344 products that fail:

palm oil, flagged by the open food facts ingredient analysis
32 products
palm oil
19 products
palm kernel
4 products
huile de palme
2 products
palmolein
1 product

Check the label first

For these, the data is incomplete or an ingredient can go either way. We say so instead of guessing. Tap one to see exactly what's unclear.

Verdicts are automated checks based on Open Food Facts data. Formulations change, so always confirm on the physical label.