Candy?

[SharonF]

I'm a candy-o-holic, and I think giving up sweets would be the hardest part for me of going gluten-free. What mainstream candies are gluten-free?

It seems to me that the following:

Nestle Crunch

Hershey's milk chocolate

Hersheys' Kisses

Hershey's Hugs

Butterfinger

Snickers

Milky Way

ARE gluten-free, but I'm afraid there's gluten hidden in them somewhere. Can you help?

[Mom22]

Sharon,

I try to limit my children's consumption of candy, however, of the list you provided, they are all ok, except Hershey's Hugs ( I seem to recall that they are not gluten-free) and I would question the Nestle crunch. Hershey's actually has a list of candies/food that are safe if you contact them. Also ok are Reese's peanut butter cups, tootsie rolls, smarties, dum dum lollipops, double bubble gum, junior mints, sweet tarts, spree candies and for the most part all willy wonka candies are ok (just check the ingredients), M&M's, and peppermint patties. These are a few I could think of off the top of my head.

Mom 2 2

[lovegrov]

The Nestle's Crunch is not gluten-free and I think the regular Milky way has gluten (the dark or midnight one does not). Nestles, Hershey and Russell Stover all plainly list gluten if it's there. All Wrigley gum is gluten-free (in fact gum is pretty mch gluten-free).

richard

[celiac3270]

I made a post, here: Open Original Shared Link where I e-mailed companies, including a few candy companies.......if you want the actual e-mails, I could forward them to you, but here are a few of the lists:

Thank you for contacting us.  We are delighted to be able to inform you that,

at this time, to the very best of our knowledge, all of our confections are

gluten free.  We do not use wheat, barley, rye, oats, triticale, spelt or any

of their components and that includes our dusting on our conveyor belts.  We

do use corn and soy products in the manufacturing of our products.  We are

including a listing of the products we make for your information.

Product List

TOOTSIE ROLL INDUSTRIES, INC.

Tootsie Rolls

Tootsie Pops

Flavor Roll Twisties

Tootsie Peppermint Pops

Frooties

Caramel Apple Pops

Dots

Fruit Smoothie Pops

Tropical Dots

Hot Chocolate Pops

Crows

Child

[MySuicidalTurtle]

I eat M+M's too much. . .mmmm, rar to them being glutenfree!

[celiac3270]

Oh, also, Skittles and Starburst are gluten-free (except for those new starburst "creme" things)..........also some company like Glutano makes a gluten-free candy that's supposed to taste just like Kit-Kats.......it's a specialty food, though, therefore, expensive.....I'd stick with mainstream brands.

[MySuicidalTurtle]

What about those new Kisses with carmel in them?

[Thomas]

Thanks for going thru the trouble of making a list for everyone!

[lovegrov]

Just looked and regular Milky Way very clearly has malted barley and wheat flour listed. Sometimes all you have to do is read ingredients.

richard

[BossDelaney]

Sharon,

I try to limit my children's consumption of candy, however, of the list you provided, they are all ok, except Hershey's Hugs ( I seem to recall that they are not gluten-free) and I would question the Nestle crunch. Hershey's actually has a list of candies/food that are safe if you contact them. Also ok are Reese's peanut butter cups, tootsie rolls, smarties, dum dum lollipops, double bubble gum, junior mints, sweet tarts, spree candies and for the most part all willy wonka candies are ok (just check the ingredients), M&M's, and peppermint patties. These are a few I could think of off the top of my head.

Mom 2 2

i'm not sure about the reese's pb cups and the M&Ms. I called Hershey's about the PB cups and they said that they can't gaurentee that they are gluten-free. So i tried them out and i got REALLY sick. Also the M&Ms made me extremely ill, even though a lot of people said they were gluten-free. I took a lactaid pill with both of them, so maybe that made me sick but idk...i'd question those.