25 Vegan Candies for Halloween

This list of classic candy might take you right back to your childhood, but did you know that they are all vegan, too? Here are 25 classic vegan candies that you can dish out this Halloween:

1. Airheads

2. Bottle Caps

3. Brach's Cinnamon Hard Candy

4. Chick-o-Sticks

5. Cry Babies

6. Dots

7. Dum-Dums

8. Fireballs

9. Fun Dip

10. Hubba Bubba bubblegum

11. Jolly Ranchers (lollipops and hard candy)

12. Laffy Taffy (some varieties)

13. Lemonheads

14. Mamba Fruit Chews

15. Mary Janes

16. Mike and Ike

17. Pixy Stix

18. Runts

19. Smarties (U.S. Brand)

20. Sour Patch Kids

21. Super Bubble

22. Swedish Fish

23. Sweet Tarts

24. Twizzlers

25. Zotz

Recent Comments

Jeri commented:

Feb 15, 2013 3:16 AM

Mike and Ike candy lists confectioners glaze in their ingredients list. I've read that confectioners glaze is not vegan. Is that true?
Amy-C commented:

Dec 12, 2012 5:22 PM

At the time this was published and still today, the candies you mention are vegan. Laffy Taffy (some varieties, including rope), Airheads, and Swedish Fish list their ingredients on their website and they don't contain egg albumen, gelatin or whey. Your comment made me think of an important point though. These candies aren't made by vegan companies and they don't guarantee that their products will remain vegan so you may want to read the labels before purchasing!
tripwirestrippin commented:

Nov 5, 2012 3:58 AM

About the candy you are advertising as vegan, I happen to know that some of these contain egg albumen, gelatin and possibly whey. Please check your sources. I cannot eat laffy taffy/airheads/swedish fish because they contain these products. I do eat Dots, Smarties, Jolly Ranchers, and dum dum suckers.

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