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Are you wanting some palm oil free cookies or biscuits for your next fun night in? Enjoy indulgent cookies without palm oil. Seek out palm oil free biscuits and cookies and other snack foods. If you are ever in doubt look for the prefixes: LAUR, STEAR, GYLC and PALM in the ingredients list on packaging – this is most likely palm oil. Another tip is to shop for locally produced biscuits and cookies that are made with healthier alternatives like olive oil. Or even better – you can make your own and they will be much healthier and palm oil free.
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Palm Oil Free Biscuits, Cakes and Cookies
🇬🇧 UK palm oil free biscuit brands
Cartright and Butler: Biscuits and cakes. Made in the UK. Available in the UK. Some of their range is palm oil free, but they are working towards being completely palm oil free. Read more.
Cocoa Loco: Biscuits and cakes. Made in the UK. Available in the UK. Find out more on their website.
Hodmedods: Breads, biscuits and cakes. Made in the UK. Available in the UK, learn more on their website.
Island Bakery: Biscuits and cookies. Made in Scotland, not vegan. Available in the UK, Europe and Asia retailers. Learn more on their website.
Infinity Foods: Wholesale foods including bread and biscuits. Made in the UK. Available in the UK, learn more on their website.
Perkier: Biscuits and snack bars. Made in the UK, Available in the UK from retailers and their website.
The Captain’s Cookies: Biscuits. Made in the UK. Available in the UK. Not vegan, read more.
🇦🇺 Australian palm oil free biscuit brands
Haigh’s chocolate: Biscuits and chocolate. Made in Australia. Available in the UK, Europe and Australia. Not vegan. Learn more on their website.
Leda biscuits: Biscuits and snack bars. Made in Australia. Available in Australia. Only some varieties of biscuits are palm oil free (rum balls and Anzac biscuits) but they are endeavouring to go completely palm oil free. Read more
Organic Times: Biscuits and cookies. Made in Australia. Available in Australia. Not vegan. Learn more on their website.
🇺🇸 American palm oil free biscuit brands
None found.
🇪🇺 European palm oil free biscuit brands
Balocco: Italian biscuits. Made in Italy. Available in Europe and speciality stores or delis worldwide. Products are not vegan. Learn more.
Delizie Bakery: Bread, baked good and biscuits, biscotti. Made in Italy. Available in Europe. Learn more on their website.
First Biscuits: Made in Belgium. Available in Europe. Learn more on their website.
Mr Organic: Made in Italy. Available in the UK, Europe and online globally. Learn more on their website.
Rhythm 108: Vegan cookies and chocolate spreads. Made in Switzerland. Available in Europe and the UK, read more.
Vego Chocolate and biscuits: Biscuits and much more. Founded in Turkey, Vego are a fully vegan and palm oil free food brand found throughout the whole world. Learn more.
🇮🇳 Indian palm oil free biscuit brands
Asmita Organic Farms: Large range of organic health foods including biscuits and snacks. Made in India. Available in India. Find out more.
Unibic biscuits: Biscuits and snacks. Made in India. Available in Europe, the UK, Asia and Australia. Only some varieties of Unibic biscuits like Anzac biscuits are palm oil free. Best to always check the ingredients list. Learn more
Key Takeaways
- Enjoy a variety of cookies and biscuits that are palm oil free to support wildlife conservation.
- Palm oil is linked to deforestation and is not considered vegan by activists due to its environmental impact.
- You can find palm oil free products from brands like Cocoa Loco, Equal Exchange, and Hodmedods.
- Use guides provided on Palm Oil Detectives to help avoid palm oil in cookies, cakes, and more.
- Use the premium version of the Yuka app to scan products and alert you when palm oil is present.
FAQS
Wait, I thought palm oil is vegan?
Palm oil is one of the world’s most destructive crops, as it can only be harvested in tropical rainforest and peatland landscapes where the highest concentration of endangered species live. The majority of palm oil and soy is fed to farm animals that people eat.
This is why palm oil is an animal rights issue. And it is for these reasons that palm oil is NOT considered vegan by animal activists. It may be a plant-based substance, but it is NOT VEGAN. Just like horse racing, greyhound racing or using poisonous pesticides that kill bees, other animals (and even people) is not vegan. Vegan is more than a food ingredient, it is a way of living and if a product is destroying ecosystems and sending animals extinct, it is not vegan.
Mass-produced biscuits and cookies by brands like Hersheys, Mondelez, Nestle and Danone like to claim that their biscuits are plant-based AKA vegan. However, if they are still using palm oil, they are simply greenwashing extinction and ecocide!
How do I avoid palm oil in biscuits, cookies and cakes then?
Use the helpful palm oil free guides on this website. On Palm Oil Detectives you can find a guide to palm oil free margarines and nut butters, a guide for chocolate without palm oil, palm oil free haircare, palm oil free pet food, skincare without palm oil and much more. Additionally there are in-depth reports about how Mondelez, Mars, Nestle, Ferrero and many others fail to stop palm oil entering their cookie supply chains. Shocking but true!
A great app to get for Android and Apple is Yuka – the premium version (costing just $10 USD per year) allows you to scan all food and personal care products in the supermarket and you are able to set custom filters, meaning you get alerts when palm oil is present in whatever you scan. It works a treat and saves a lot of hassle.
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Take action in five ways!
- 1. Join the #Boycott4Wildlife on social media and subscribe to stay in the loop:
Use the one-click buttons to share written posts from this website or videos from Youtube to your own network and connect with Palm Oil Detectives on BlueSky, Twitter, Mastodon, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook using the hashtags #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife.
- Contribute stories:
Academics, conservationists, scientists, indigenous rights advocates and animal rights advocates working to expose the corruption of the palm oil industry can contribute stories or get in touch here.
- Supermarket sleuthing:
Next time you’re in the supermarket, take photos of products containing palm oil. Share these to social media along with the hashtags to call out the greenwashing and ecocide of the brands using palm oil. You can also take photos of palm oil free products and congratulate brands when they go palm oil free. Find palm oil free brands here
- Donate to boost the #Boycott4Wildlife campaign
Make a one-off or monthly donation to Palm Oil Detectives as a way of saying thank you and to help pay for ongoing running costs of the website and social media campaigns that help animals, landscapes and people. Donate here
https://ko-fi.com/palmoildetectives - Download the premium version of the Yuka app
Yuka is an independent (not industry-funded) mobile app for Android and Apple. The paid version is $10 USD per year and is well worth the money! Simply scan all supermarket items to find out if they contain palm oil along with countless other nasty highly processed and unhealthy ingredients. You can scan cosmetic and personal care items as well as food. Set up alerts for palm oil to be flagged so you can disregard the items. Download the app
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