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Canada & USA
Initially, I had hoped to get this list together and out to you before Halloween this year. Unfortunately, it took me longer to hear back from all the companies, and I wanted to make sure I had a nice and full list before sharing. Halloween has passed for this year… But that’s ok! The good news is that we can definitely enjoy candy and chocolate any day of the year! Plus, I’m pretty sure we are all in need of some sweet treats right about now!
So, I reached out to many of the large candy companies in Canada and the U.S. to ask them about their gluten free offerings. If you are someone who is often buying gluten free products, then you are likely used to budgeting extra time on your grocery trips to read ingredient labels. If you are new to this experience, that’s ok and welcome! You are not alone. My hope is that this list will make your search less stressful and get you to the goodies quicker.
I have separated this article into two sections for gluten free candies; Canada and the U.S.
Below, you will find either products that are explicitly gluten free, as stated by their manufacturers or disclaimers about allergens in their products. I wanted to make this list as clear and simple as possible, but I also didn’t want to withhold information that could affect your decisions.
This list does not cover ALL gluten free candies, but I tried to get answers for the most common ones.
Please read the labels before purchasing! Manufacturing practices may change, and if you have specific questions regarding a product, you should reach out to the manufacturer directly to clarify. When it comes to “may contains” lists in the allergen label, please use your judgment. Everyone reacts to gluten differently, so it’s your decision as to how risky you want to be.
Side note, I love this Halloween font in the header, these adorable little decorations, and the crazy colored candy so I’m leaving them in for now! I did remove the animated banner with a flying witch though… Next year!
Enjoy your treats!
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Gluten Free Candy & Chocolate List Canada
Hershey's
Disclaimer: Hershey is committed to providing products that meet your dietary needs, and many people today are interested in gluten-free foods.
A food bearing a gluten-free claim does not contain the protein from wheat, rye, barley, spelt, kamut, triticale, farina, vital gluten semolina, malt vinegar or protein derivatives of these foods. If gluten is present due to exposure to these grains, then the level of gluten must be less than 20 parts per million.
For your convenience, the products listed below have been fully evaluated and qualify as gluten-free using standards established by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA).
The best way to determine if our products contain a gluten ingredient is to read our product label. This label includes an accurate, current listing of the ingredients in our products. Because, on occasion, the list of ingredients can change, we strongly encourage you to check the ingredient label on the package each time before you make a purchase.
Brookside Dark Chocolate Fruit & Nut Snack Bars:
- – Brookside Dark Chocolate Acai and Blueberry Flavour
- – Brookside Dark Chocolate Chardonnay Grape and Peach Flavours
- – Brookside Dark Chocolate Goji and Raspberry Flavours
- – Brookside Dark Chocolate Merlot Grape and Black Currant Flavours
- – Brookside Dark Chocolate Mango and Mangosteen Flavours
- – Brookside Dark Chocolate Pomegranate Flavour
- – Brookside Milk Chocolate Covered Almonds
- – Brookside Dark Chocolate Covered Cranberries
Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Covered Almonds
Hershey’s Cocoa
Hershey’s Snacks:
- – Eat-More Bar
Hershey’s ChipIts Baking Chips:
-Hershey’s ChipIts Butterscotch Baking Chips
-Hershey’s ChipIts Chunks – Dark
-Hershey’s ChipIts Dark Chocolate Baking Chips
-Hershey’s ChipIts Milk Chocolate Baking Chips
-Hershey’s ChipIts Mini Kisses Chocolates
-Hershey’s ChipIts Mini Reese’s Pieces
-Hershey’s ChipIts Mint Chocolate Baking Chips
-Hershey’s ChipIts Pure White Chocolate Baking Chips
-Hershey’s ChipIts Reese’s Peanut Butter Baking Chips
-Hershey’s ChipIts Sea Salt Caramel Chips
-Hershey’s ChipIts Semisweet Chocolate Baking Chips
-Hershey’s ChipIts Skor Toffee Baking Bits
Jelly Belly Canada
Disclaimer: “We do not use any wheat, rye, barley, or oats in the basic recipe for Jelly Belly jelly beans. The modified food starch used in the manufacture of our jelly beans is cornstarch.”
Nestlé Canada
Nestlé has shared a list of some of their gluten free product offerings. Unfortunately this list is not extensive. Please read the product labels to determine their other gluten free products.
- – TURTLES Original
– BACI Dark 70%
– HÄAGEN-DAZS Non-Dairy Peanut Butter Chocolate Fudge
– HÄAGEN-DAZS Non-Dairy Coconut Caramel
– HÄAGEN-DAZS Non-Dairy Chocolate Salted Fudge Truffle
– HÄAGEN-DAZS Non-Dairy Peanut Butter Fudge bars
– HÄAGEN-DAZS Non-Dairy Coconut Caramel bars
Tootsie Roll Industries
Disclaimer: “At this time, all of our confections are gluten free. We do not use wheat, barley, rye, oats, triticale, spelt or any of their components and that includes our dusting on our conveyor belts. We do use corn and soy products in the manufacturing of our products.”
- – Tootsie Rolls and Tootsie Pops
– Frooties fruit flavored chewy candy
– Child’s Play assorted candies
– Dots gumdrops and -Crows licorice candy
– Sugar Daddy and Sugar Babies
– Andes Chocolate Mints
– Charms Blow Pops and Caramel Apple Pops
– Charleston Chew candy bars
– Junior Mints
– Cella’s chocolate-covered cherries
– Fluffy Stuff cotton candy
– Dubble Bubble, Thrills, Razzles, and Cry Baby chewing gum
– Nik-L-Nip juice confection
– Wax Lips flavored wax candy
– Candy Blox
– Polar Mint
HARIBO
Disclaimer: “Our consumers’ safety is our top priority at HARIBO. Part of ensuring that safety involves consistently testing our products for all major allergens.
Our gummi product recipe does not contain wheat, however, our manufacturing facilities around the world use different suppliers and some ingredients are derived from wheat. To reflect that, we have made a label change on our product packs as an additional safety measure. Out of an abundance of caution, we cannot guarantee, therefore we do not certify our products as gluten-free.”
Welch's
All: Except licorice
Note: According to Welch’s, the licorice candy is made in a separate facility and therefore does not come into contact with their other products.
Mars Canada
Disclaimer: “At Mars Canada Inc., we’re committed to ensuring that consumers have access to the information they need to make informed decisions about our products. Your trust in our brands is important to us. That’s why we ensure that any of the top 10 allergens in Canada that are part of our recipes are clearly listed on our product labels. The list of ingredients shows what the product is made of. We recommend that consumers with known allergies, or those responsible for their care, always read the list of ingredients prior to consuming any of our products. The ingredient statement on the package provides the most accurate and up to date information about that product. If the allergen you are allergic to is present on the label, then you should not eat the product.
Regarding our ‘May Contain (allergen)’ statement on our labels, the safety and well-being of all consumers in our absolute priority. We do take great care to maintain the integrity of our products. However, on occasion we do use the same manufacturing equipment to make different products. We will only use a “May Contain (allergen)” statement when, despite extensive cleaning, we are unable to eliminate the allergen from crossing over into a non-allergen containing product. We also follow the Canadian Food Inspection Agency policy which requires food manufacturers to clearly disclose the top ten allergens – peanuts, tree nuts, sesame seeds, milk, eggs, wheat & triticale, soy, sulphites, mustard, fish and shellfish (crustaceans) – whenever they may be present.
Although gluten is not an allergen, we do ensure that all sources of gluten are clearly identified in both the ingredients declaration and, when required, through the pre-cautionary “May contain” statement on our product labels.
Unfortunately, we do not have an active list of all of our gluten free products due to the fact that the ingredients within our products are subject to change. The ingredient statement on each wrapper/package is the best source for this information. Food Allergy Canada advises consumers to rely on ingredient labels, rather than lists that can become outdated when products change.”
Gluten Free Candy & Chocolate List USA
Hershey's
Disclaimer: “A food bearing a gluten-free claim does not contain the protein from wheat, rye, barley, spelt, kamut, triticale, farina, vital gluten semolina, malt vinegar or protein derivatives of these foods, or, if such grain is present, the level of such gluten protein has been reduced to less than 20 parts per million.
For your convenience, the current products listed below have been fully evaluated and qualify as gluten-free using standards established by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The best way to determine if our products contain a gluten ingredient is to read our product label. This label includes an accurate, current listing of the ingredients in our products. Because, on occasion, the list of ingredients can change, we strongly encourage you to check the ingredient label on the package each time before you make a purchase.”
Almond Joy Candy
- – All: Except Almond Joy Pieces Candy
Brookside Dark Chocolate Fruit & Nut Snack Bars:
- – Brookside Dark Chocolate Acai and Blueberry Flavour
- – Brookside Dark Chocolate Goji and Raspberry Flavours
- – Brookside Dark Chocolate Merlot Grape and Black Currant Flavours
- – Brookside Dark Chocolate Mango and Mangosteen Flavours
- – Brookside Dark Chocolate Pomegranate Flavour
- – Brookside Milk Chocolate Covered Almonds
Dagoba Bars: All
Health Bars: All
Hershey’s Baking Bar
- – Hershey’s Semi Sweet Baking Bar
– Hershey’s Unsweetened Baking Bar
Hershey’s and Reese's Baking Chips:
– Heath Milk Chocolate Toffee Bits
– Heath Bits O’Brickle
– Hershey’s Butterscotch Chips
– Hershey’s Cinnamon Chips
– Hershey’s Mini Kisses Milk Chocolates
– Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Chips
– Hershey’s Mini Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
– Hershey’s Mint Chocolate Chips
– Hershey’s Premier White Crème Chips
– Hershey’s Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
– Hershey’s Sea Salt Caramel Chips
– Hershey’s Special Dark Mildly Sweet Chocolate Chips
– Hershey’s Sugar Free Chocolate Chips
– Reese’s Baking Cups and Reese’s Pieces Candy
– Reese’s Peanut Butter Chips
– Reese’s Mini Pieces Peanut Butter Candy in a Crunchy Shell
Hershey’s Cocoa:
- – Hershey’s Cocoa
– Hershey’s Special Dark Cocoa - – Hershey’s Dutch Cocoa
Hershey’s Kisses
- – Hershey’s Kisses – Hot Cocoa
- – Hershey’s Hugs Candy
- – Hershey’s Kisses Milk Chocolate Filled with Caramel
- – Hershey’s Kisses Milk Chocolate Filled with Cherry Cordial Crème
- – Hershey’s Kisses Dark Chocolate Filled with Mint Truffle
- – Hershey’s Kisses Meltaway Milk Chocolates
- – Hershey’s Kisses Milk Chocolate
- – Hershey’s Kisses Special Dark Mildly Sweet Chocolate
- – Hershey’s Kisses – Candy Cane
- – Hershey’s Kisses – Kiss Deluxe
- – Hershey’s Kisses – Espresso
- – Hershey’s Kisses Creamy Milk Chocolate
- – Hershey’s Kisses Creamy Milk Chocolate with Almonds
- – Hershey’s Giant Kiss (7 oz. only)
Hershey’s Nuggets:
- – Hershey’s Nuggets Milk Chocolates
- – Hershey’s Nuggets Milk Chocolate with Almonds
- – Hershey’s Nuggets Special Dark Chocolate with Almonds
- – Hershey’s Nuggets Extra Creamy Milk Chocolate with Toffee and Almonds
- – Hershey’s Nuggets Special Dark Chocolate
Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Bar:
- – Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Bar (1.55oz only)
- – Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Bar with Almonds (1.45oz only)
Hershey's Milk Duds: All
Jelly Belly
Disclaimer: “Jelly Belly jelly beans are gluten free, peanut free, dairy free, fat free and vegetarian friendly.”
Tootsie Roll Industries
Disclaimer: “At this time, all of our confections are gluten free. We do not use wheat, barley, rye, oats, triticale, spelt or any of their components and that includes our dusting on our conveyor belts. We do use corn and soy products in the manufacturing of our products.”
Ferrara USA
Disclaimer: “Our products contain only Corn Gluten. The following products contain no wheat, rye, barley or oats.”
Atomic Fireballs
Black Forest Gummies: All
Bob's Sweet Stripes
Boston Baked Beans
Brach's
- – Wild ‘N Fruity Gummi Worms
- – Candy Corn – All Varieties
- – Chocolates – Peanut Caramel Clusters, Peanut Clusters, Stars, Chocolate Covered Raisins,
- – Brach’s Double Dipped Peanuts/Double Dippers (they are processed in a facility that processes wheat)
- – Cinnamon Disks
- – Cinnamon Imperials
- – Conversation Hearts
- – Jelly Bean Nougats
- – Lemon Drops
- – Halloween Mellowcremes – All Varieties
Candy Canes: (Bob's, Brach's, Lemonhead & Friends, Red Hots) Allergen Free
Cherry Sours
Ferrara Gummies: All
Fruit Snacks: (Ferrara, Black Forest, Trolli)
Gumballs
Jawbreakers / Jawbusters
Jellies: All (Gum Drops, Orange Slices, etc.)
Jelly Beans
Juju's
Jujy's
Lemonheads
- – Lemonheads & Friends Conversation Hearts
- – Tropical Chewy Lemonhead
- – Chewy Lemonhead & Friends
- – Berry Chewy Lemonhead
- – Cherryhead
- – Grapehead
Now & Later
Red Hot's
Sathers Gummies: All
Trolli Gummies
- – All Except Trolli Sour Brite Bites and Trolli Twisted Sour Brite Crawlers
HARIBO
Disclaimer: “Our consumers’ safety is our top priority at HARIBO. Part of ensuring that safety involves consistently testing our products for all major allergens.
Our gummi product recipe does not contain wheat, however, our manufacturing facilities around the world use different suppliers and some ingredients are derived from wheat. To reflect that, we have made a label change on our product packs as an additional safety measure. Out of an abundance of caution, we cannot guarantee, therefore we do not certify our products as gluten-free.”
Welch's
All: Except licorice
Note: According to Welch’s, the licorice candy is made in a separate facility and therefore does not come into contact with their other products.
Just Born
Disclaimer: “We offer many gluten free products under the MIKE AND IKE®, HOT TAMALES®, PEEPS®, GOLDENBERG’S® PEANUT CHEWS® and JUST BORN® brands, and we are in the process of updating package labels to include gluten free statements where appropriate. Because product formulations can change at any time, we encourage consumers to refer to our package labels for the most up-to-date ingredient and allergen information.
All of our candies that we label as gluten free meet the criteria outlined by the FDA for labeling products as gluten free, and do not contain wheat, rye, barley, oats or crossbreeds of these grains in their manufacture. The modified food starch used in our candies is corn starch.
Please be aware, however, that because some of our products may be manufactured and/or packaged in a facility that may also handle non gluten free products, we encourage consumers to read the labels carefully for the most up-to-date ingredient and allergen information.”
