Palm Oil Free Chocolate, Candy and Confectionery

Buying chocolate, candy or lollies as a gift or just want to indulge yourself? Then enjoy your chocolate fix without eating rainforest-destroying palm oil! 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 chocolate and vegan chocolate (if you happen to be vegan).

Also – cocoa is another highly controversial ingredient linked to deforestation and human rights abuses. Mighty Earth create regular guides profiling (big and small) chocolate brands so you can decide which ones to purchase and which ones to #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife!

Did you know that 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, but it is NOT VEGAN. Brands claiming that their products are plant-based AKA vegan but yet still using palm oil are simply greenwashing extinction and ecocide!

Here are some dairy chocolate and vegan dairy-free chocolate without palm oil. This list was created by Mighty Earth and vetted for cocoa sustainability.

Palm Oil Free Chocolate and Confectionery

Mighty Earth’s 2023 Chocolate Scorecard

The attached report is created each year by Mighty Earth and strives to call to account chocolate (and other food) manufacturers and retailers. Make sure that you cross-reference whether or not these brands are using palm oil. Most of them do and you can read about their ongoing palm oil ecocide here.