What is Dye Free Candy? A Beginner’s Guide

Just because you want to remove artificial colors and dyes from your diet doesn’t mean you want to get rid of candy. Fortunately, more and more candy makers are hearing the call for dye free options.

We encourage you to read labels and get to know what’s in your food so you can make the best choices for you and your family. But when shopping online, it’s sometimes hard to get all the information you need, that’s why we’ve created this list of affordable bulk order dye free candy.

Guide To Dye-Free Candy

This dye-free bulk candy is great for schools, church groups, camps and birthday parties that want to respect dietary choices made by families. They’re also great for you, because buying in bulk means you don’t have to spend a fortune to get dye free candy.


Snickers

Chocolate Dye-Free Options

Because chocolate is naturally dark in color, it’s easy to find dye-free chocolate candy options. Some of the major chocolate brands, including Nestle have taken an extra step by pledging to remove all artificial dyes from their chocolate candy.

That means you can keep eating chocolate even if you’re living a dye-free lifestyle. Our favorite dye free chocolate candies are:

Crunch bar

Baby Ruth

Nestle Assorted Miniatures

Butterfinger

100 Grand

Milky Way

Snickers Miniatures

3 Musketeers

Mars & Twix candy

Mars Miniature Mix, Combining Milky Way, Twix, 3 Musketeers and Snickers, this fun size mix contains some of your favorite dye-free chocolate.

Hershey Kisses

Kit Kats

Reese’s Miniature Peanut Butter Cups

Rolo

Hershey Spring Easter Mix, another great dye-free chocolate mix that includes Rolo, Reese’s and Kit Kats.

Hershey’s Miniatures

Twix

Dr John's Ultimate Collection

Fruits, Mints, and Gum

If you prefer your dye free candy in a flavor other than chocolate, check out this list of our favorite dye free fruits, mints, and gum:

Lovely Candy Co Chews in Chocolate Caramel, Fudge Roll, Apple Caramel and Superfruit Chew flavors

Primrose Orange Honey Bee Filled Candy in a 5 lb bag http://www.sweetservices.com/Primrose-Orange-Honey-Bee-Filled-Candy-5lbs..html

Spangler Natural Peppermint Candy Canes with no artificial colors and 100% natural flavors

Rock candy

Original Rock Candy Sticks, while not all rock candy flavors are dye free, the original translucent rock candy is, so rock on.

Black Forest Organic Lollipops have all natural colors and with 25 per bag you’l have enough for the whole class.

Werther’s Original candy, a candy dish classic

Dr. John’s Sugar Ultimate Sweet Collection is 2.5 lbs of hard candy, taffy and lollipops with no sugar and no artificial flavors or colors. They’re naturally flavored with Hydrogenated Starch Hydrolysate derived from corn. All of the Dr. John brand sugar free candies are dye free.

Beechies Peppermint Gum

This is by no means and exhaustive list. If you want more dye-free options, read labels or check out www.fooducate.com. Their site allows you to search for your favorite candy (or other foods) and see an easy to read breakdown of ingredients including artificial colors, additives, and flavors

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