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Buying palm oil free candy or chocolate without palm oil as a gift or simply as a personal treat? You can enjoy your chocolate without chowing down on 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 use the premium version of the Yuka app which allows you to filter your food and personal care products to alert you to the presence of palm oil. Read on for the updated list of palm oil free confectionery brands.
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Palm oil free chocolate and confectionery list
Liberation Foods: chocolate, spreads, nuts.
Raw Gorilla: Cereals, snacks, chocolate
True Gum: chewing gum, mints, sweets.
FAQS
Why choose chocolate without palm oil?
By choosing palm oil free candy and confectionery and chocolate without palm oil you are doing rainforests and rare rainforest animals a favour. By choosing palm oil free chocolate brands, you’ll be helping indigenous peoples and wild animals in Africa, South and Central America, Papua and India. Take action today!
Isn’t palm oil plant-based though, therefore it’s 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, 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!
How do I work out what chocolate spread is palm oil free?
There are a number of ways. If it is not clearly stated in the ingredients list, look for the prefixes: LAUR, STEAR, GYLC and PALM in the ingredients on candy packaging – this is most likely palm oil. Although it may also be something else. To confirm, you can use the premium version of the Yuka app, which allows you to scan supermarket food and personal care items and create an alert for the presence of palm oil. This means you really can boycott palm oil and choose chocolate without palm oil!
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!
Watch video: How to find palm oil free chocolate and candy
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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