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Palm oil free margarine can be easier to find when you know which brands also make palm oil free vegan margarine, cooking oils, nut butters, and spreads. This guide highlights practical palm oil free alternatives to help shoppers avoid deforestation-linked supermarket products and choose brands without palm oil.
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Palm oil free cooking oils, margarine, nut butters and spreads
Biona: UK company. Sauces, nut butters and snacks. Available in UK stores and ships worldwide.
99th Monkey: Made in Australia and ships worldwide. Nut butters and spreads.
Carly’s nut butters: Made in the UK. Ships to the UK, EU and worldwide.
Coppola Foods: Made in Italy. Pasta sauces, pasta, tapenades and cooking oils. Available worldwide.
Clear Spring: UK company specialising in plant-based Japanese foods. Available in-store in the UK. Ships worldwide.
Fabalous: Made in the UK. Nut butters and spreads. Available in stores in the UK, USA, EU, Australia and ships worldwide.
Fix & Fogg: Made in New Zealand. USA, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, speciality shops throughout the world.
Flower Farm NL Made in the Netherlands. Available in the UK, The Netherlands, Belgium, France.
Ground Up Nut Butters: Made in the USA. Available in the USA only
HealthyCo Sweden: Made in Sweden. 30 countries worldwide including Japan, Europe, UK, USA.
Hellenic Farms: Made in Greece. Nut butters and teas. In-store in EU and the UK. Ships worldwide.
Hodmedods: Made in the UK. Plant-based cake mixes, sauces, cooking oils, canned vegetables. Ships to the UK.
JEM: Made in the USA. Nut butters and snacks. Ships to the UK, EU, USA and Canada.
Liberation Foods: chocolate, spreads, nuts.
Olivado: Made in NZ and Australia. Olive oil and avocado oil. Available in stores in Australia, New Zealand and throughout Asia.
Organico: Spanish olive oil. Ships worldwide
Papa Outang: Made in France. Ships throughout the world.
Pip & Nut: UK company. Nut butters, spreads and snacks. Available in UK shops and ships around the world.
Meridian: Made in the UK. Nut butters and snacks. Available in UK, EU, CA, AU and USA shops and online shops worldwide.
Miyokos Vegan Dairy: Made in the USA. Available in UK, EU, CA and USA stores and online shops worldwide. Vegan dairy products including vegan butter.
Mr Organic: Spreads, sauces, biscuits and snacks. Available in UK and EU shops and ships throughout the world.
Naturli: Danish company with production in Australia and the UK. Vegan butters, snacks and Available throughout the world.
Naturya: UK company. Cereal toppers, nut butters and snacks. Available in UK stores and ships worldwide.
Nutlers Nut Butter: Made in Greece. Available in Europe, USA, Canada but ships worldwide.
Nocciolata: Made in Italy, available in shops and online worldwide.
Plamil Foods: Made in the UK, available in supermarkets in the UK and online shops worldwide.
Raw Gorilla: Made in the UK. Cereals, snacks, chocolate. Ships worldwide.
Sun and Seed: Made in the UK. Nut butters and cooking oils. Available in the UK and ships to the EU.
Supernature: Made in the UK. Infused olive oils. UK only.
TBH (To Be Honest): Noah Schnapp from Stranger Things’ Nutella alternative: Made in the USA. Shipping in the USA only.
The Greek Kitchen: Olive oil, olive tapenades and spreads. Available in stores in the UK and ships within the UK.
Vego: snacks, nut butters, chocolate. Available in stores worldwide.
Wild Friends Nut Butters and Sauces: Made in the USA. Ships to USA only.
By choosing locally produced cooking oils such as olive, sesame or peanut oil and by making your own foods instead of buying convenience foods you’re doing your health and the animals a favour. If you are ever in doubt look for the prefixes: LAUR, STEAR, GYLC and PALM in the ingredients list on margarine or spread packaging – this is most likely palm oil. By choosing palm oil free margarine brands, you’ll be helping indigenous peoples and wild animals in Africa, South and Central America as well as India. Take action today, here’s more helpful guides for shopping:
But hold on a second, isn’t palm oil 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. Convenience food mega-brands that make spreads and margarines like Mondelez, Nestle, Danone, CocaCola, Pepsi, Hersheys and Ferrero claim that the palm oil they use is vegan. Yet all palm oil is linked to greenwashing, extinction and ecocide!
Companies should give the people what they want
Research finds that palm oil free labelling encourages more people to purchase these products
“The perceived effects of palm oil on health have the strongest influence on consumption intent, followed by environmental damage caused by palm oil production…Our research suggests that companies developing palm oil-free products could benefit from a label on the product stating their palm oil-free nature.”
Plasek B, Lakner Z, Badak-Kerti K, Kovács A, Temesi Á. Perceived Consequences: General or Specific? The Case of Palm Oil-Free Products. Sustainability. 2021; 13(6):3550. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13063550
“Results revealed that consumer exposed to the ‘palm oil free’ products showed a lower risk perception compared to those exposed to the ‘with sustainable palm oil’ products and to products without claim. Moreover, the product evaluation was better in the ‘palm oil free’ condition compared to the “with sustainable palm oil” condition”
Vergura, Donata Tania & Zerbini, Cristina & Luceri, Beatrice. (2019). “Palm oil free” vs “sustainable palm oil”: the impact of claims on consumer perception. British Food Journal. DOI:10.1108/BFJ-01-2019-0020
“Products with a free-from label were considered healthier than products without such a label, with the strongest effects occurring for labels indicating that products were free of GMOs and free of palm oil.”
Hartmann C, Hieke S, Taper C, Siegrist M. European consumer healthiness evaluation of ‘Free-from’ labelled food products. Food Qual Prefer. 2018;68:377-388. doi:10.1016/j.foodqual.2017.12.009.
Use this guide to boycott Nutella and other nasty spreads
Did you know Nutella contains dirty palm oil? Yes, shocking but true! Nutella and all other products containing palm oil are linked to the destruction of millions of hectares of rainforests all over the world. Yet Ferrero, maker of Nutella along with Mondelez maker of Cadbury and many others flagrantly lie that their palm oil is “sustainable”, they do this despite knowing that deforestation for palm oil hasn’t stopped in 30 years. Deforestation free palm oil is a greenwashing lie. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. There’s something you can do! Boycott palm oil and use the list of brands below to find a palm oil free vegan margarine and nut butters.
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.
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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
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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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Trying to find a margarine without Palm oil that I can find easily. Any suggestions?
Hi Ruth where are you located in the world? Different shops online stock these palm oil free brands of margarines, vegan butters and nut butters. Also most bricks and mortar supermarkets will stock at least one margarine that is palm oil free. If you find it difficult to find a margarine or spread without palm oil you could perhaps try a different approach by using olive oil, coconut oil, peanut oil or sesame oil as a substitute – these are all super tasty alternatives that add a lot of flavour to dishes and have no palm oil.
I hope the video above helps too, with distinguishing palm oil when it may not be explicitly mentioned in the ingredients list. The key – and this is very easy to remember is to look for the ingredient prefixes STEAR, LAUR, GLYC, PALM – if the weird chemical ingredients have any of these ingredient prefixes on them…it is most likely to be palm oil and should be avoided/boycotted. I hope this all helps and good luck, POD xx