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ILOVEOMC Enthusiast

Somewhere I read that the eggs were not gluten-free like the regular shaped reese peanut butter cups. At the store tonight the ingredients read the same so I wonder if they both are gluten-free. Anyone know? I am going to call them tomorrow.


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Rusla Enthusiast
Somewhere I read that the eggs were not gluten-free like the regular shaped reese peanut butter cups. At the store tonight the ingredients read the same so I wonder if they both are gluten-free. Anyone know? I am going to call them tomorrow.

These are made by Hershey and Hershey will name anything that has wheat/gluten in them or made in a facility that does wheat products. When the eggs first came out I bought a bag, boy was I sick from them. Of course I read the bag and it never mentioned wheat but a week later the new bags were out and they did read wheat. Also the Caramilk eggs have wheat in them.

So yes, these do have wheat in them, unfortunately. However, Turtles and Turtles eggs are wheat/gluten-free.

WGibs Apprentice

There are two types of Reese's p-nut butter egg:

1. SAFE -- the ones that are shaped like an egg, but flat (like a 2-dimensional egg). They come in two sizes, in predominantly yellow wrappers. The smaller of the two is akin to a fun size candy bar and comes in bags. The larger come in six-packs

2. NOT SAFE -- the ones that are about twice the size of a pnut M&M and that shape (like a three-dimensional egg). They are individually wrapped in foil and come in bags. They clearly say wheat flour in the ingredients.

This blog has pictures of each: Open Original Shared Link

The first one is safe, and the second is not.

I hope this helps! Can you tell I have a Reese's problem?

Rusla Enthusiast

I have never seen the first two eggs up here. It was the ones on the bottom that come in the bag that got me.

ILOVEOMC Enthusiast

Thanks so much!! WGibs your pictures were excellent and now I can give the yellow wrapped eggs to my kids for Easter. I appreciate your help and clearing up my confusion. There are sooo many types of candy out there and it gets over whelming:)

Guest nini

thank you for postiing those pictures! now I know which ones I can give my daughter! she loves reeses peanut butter cups! for egg shaped candy I'll get her cadbury creme eggs...

Becky6 Enthusiast

Yay!!! I am so glad those are ok!!


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jerseyangel Proficient

Thank you for that! :)

Green12 Enthusiast

These are my all time favorite easter candy. I'm so excited they are safe!!!

I got really sick around Halloween because of some of the candy I ate. I read that some of the miniature versions of the different candies do in fact have gluten in them even though their larger version do not. Makes it kind of confusing hershey people.

Mahee34 Enthusiast

candy always throws me for a loop........today i had those cadbury chocolate eggs that i saw on this site were gluten free......and boy do i feel like hell all of the sudden.....and it couldn't have been anything else because all i've had was salad no dressing and water!!!

yea , that's not enough for food in a day, but sometimes you are too busy to eat....today was that day for me

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