Allergen Friendly Halloween Candy

**UPDATED OCTOBER 10, 2024**

Looking for allergen friendly Halloween Candy? Struggling to know what to do about Halloween with allergies? Check out some of these brands that make top allergen safe candies. They may help out make this Halloween an inclusive one.

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What is Safe For Your Family?

Only you can make that decision with your family's medical team. There is no one sized fits all candy or product for everyone.

There are a few options open to families with food allergies choosing to trick or treat. We have put together a few of our favourite Top 8 and 9 Allergen free candies and brands. These are candies that are free from the top 9 or 8 priority allergens by ingredients. You will still need to verify with the manufacturer and ingredient label to see if they are safe for you. 

Contacting the brand to see if there are shared facilities and shared lines is important for many and we encourage you to always follow up on any products' safety with the manufacturer. 

Another thing to check with manufacturers is if the treat sized or varying sized bags are produced in their regular facilities or outsourced and if the Halloween products are safe for you. Sometimes products are outsourced for special runs and made in different facilities with other allergens.

Popular Halloween Candy Lists and Resources :

Snack Safely

There is a more comprehensive list put out by Snack Safely Guide each year for many different occasions. It is an excellent resource. This list is highly trusted within the allergen family community and is thoroughly researched.

New for 2023, Snack Safely has made a Halloween specific guide. We highly recommend checking it out for ideas on what is available for your family. In 2024, the guide was updated with new information and can be accessed on their website for the full details through this article.

Allergic Living

Recently Allergic Living released their Halloween Candy list for 2024. Each brand is listed with a short description and links to the company. They also have what the candy is free from clearly listed, where to get it online and in stores. This year decor has also been added in addition to candies.

Food Allergy Canada

Food Allergy Canada has a fantastic article about celebrating Halloween. This is where they share their top tips to celebrating a safe Halloween for kids with food allergies.

The Canadian version of a teal pumpkin program is called "Shine a Teal Light on Food Allergy". To support those with food allergies swapping out your porch light with a teal light and increase the awareness of food allergies. Unlike the American counterpart there is no push to offer non-food treats.

FARE

The organisers of the Teal Pumpkin Program, Food Allergy Research & Education (FARE), has multiple resources on their site about different Halloween related content. There is a Candy Facts informational page with things to consider with candy safey. In 2022, FARE wrote a blog post about How to be Food Allergy Safe This Halloween It has tips about staying on top of your allergies and what your allergens are.

By registering with FARE's Teal Pumpkin Project you can list your address on their interactive map. By doing so you pledge to offer non food treats, such as small toys, glow sticks, and more.

FAACT

The Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Connection Team has a Halloween ressources page with different tips and trick to stay safe, Halloween activities and links to their pinterest boards for the holiday.

They have their own initiative the Teal Ghost Kit developed by FAACT to showcase suitable non-food alternatives for Halloween as inclusive treats. The premise is you put together a non-food package for your neighbours to handout and they then do the same for more neighbours until the neighbourhood is full of alternative non-food options.

Kids With Food Allergies

Kids With Food Allergies (KFA), a part of Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, has put together a candy guide for more info on various non-halloweeen themed candies that are allergen friendly. The list was last updated in October 2024. The list is broken up in kinds of candy: chocolate, gummies, etc. Each item has what it is free from the allergens listed next to it.

The Spokin App

Both an Allergy app and a blog site for those with various allergies, Spokin has Halloween Candy Guide that are broken up in to kinds of allergies, peanut- free, milk- free, and even a top 8 free list here.

The top 8 free list is a graphic that lists a few candies down one side and the allergens across the top. The boxes say "yes" for what the candies do contain or "no" for if they are free from it. They do not discuss shared lines or may contact warnings. Most of the lists are showing as published in 2023 at the time of our updated publishing.

Allergy Awesomeness

The super popular and mega star allergy blog, Allergy Awesomeness, has a list of candies called Allergy Friendly Candy List. It isn't Halloween focused but does list various candies that are top 8 free. They have noted when there are things to watch, soy lecthin, or different names in Canada or the US. Their links are affiliate links

Last updated in February 2024. Don't skip this article though as there are fantastic tips and things to consider if gifting candy to someone with allergies. Megan Lavin, the owner of Allergy Awesomeness, makes an excellent point of always checking with the parents of the child with a food you are buying for before you get anything for them. What is in the ingredients and in the facility can be two different things, especially when it come to peanut or tree nut allergies. Many with severe allergies need to make sure the products come from facilities free from their allergens.

The Pretty Bee

Another allergy friendly blog, The Pretty Bee, has a Guide to Allergy Friendly Candy. Updated in June 2024, this guide is a list collection of allergy friendly candies and what allergens they may contain or which candies may be good options for those avoiding food dyes.

It has a great selection of everyday candies that are incidentally top 8/9 free and allergy aware brands. We love that this list is broken up in sections such as gummies, chocolates, and hard candies for example. The guide does not focus on Halloween candies specifically at the date of our posting this, but has a holiday section at the end for Easter, St Valentine's, and Christmas.

Common Candies That Are Incidentally Top 8/9 Free:

These sweets are top 8/9 free by ingredient list only. There is always a possibility for cross contact in packaging or manufacturing.

Sour Patch Kids (The yoghurt/go-gurt and the ice cream & sobet are not top 8/9 free). Buy a Sour Patch Kids and Swedish fish Halloween box on Amazon here.

Rockets/ Smarties (in the US this treat is known as Smarties and is a hard sugar candy. In Canada this sweet is called Rockets. They have more info on their FAQs about allergen info and facilities. To find the specific UPCs that are gluten free and peanut free facilities chek out their FAQs. The candy "Smarties" are a different candy made with milk which are not safe). Buy Smarties/Rockets on Amazon here.

Fuzzy Peaches, Swedish Fish, Swedish Berries and other Maynards brand candies. Buy Fuzzy Peaches, Swedish Fish, or Swedish Berries on Amazon here.

Old Dutch Plain Chips A Canadian Potato Chip staple the Original flavour are top 98/9 free by ingredients. Old Dutch original Snack sized bags can be purchased Here on Amazon.

UTZ Original Flavoured Potato Chips. The Origianl flavour of this American favourite potato chip brand is made with few ingredients. Buy UTZ Original Flavoured Potato chips on Amazon here.

DumDums Lollipops ( in 2024 the Spangler Candy website was updated to say "This product is free of top common allergens and manufactured on dedicated equipment." The previous soy warning was removed.however the packaging photos doesn't say soy free so do double check this product with the manufacturer. ) Buy Dumdums on Amazon here.

And more.

Always contact the manufacturer for cross contact risks and read the ingredients as they can change. Manufacturing may differ for the candies from time to time with ingredient availability and they may come in contact with allergens.

Tips for Shipping Chocolate

Having allergen friendly Halloween candy and chocolates shipped requires some product stabilisation at certain times of the year. The chocolate can melt in transit. Many of the companies offer special packages and ice packs for purchase. These are to help keep the products from melting in transit. Budget for these. Especially if you live somewhere where it can be warm or the plant is in a warmer climate.

There is nothing worse than spending a ton of money to have pumpkin shaped chocolates only to have them melt into blobs before they get to you. Don't skimp on the packaging, even if it means you purchase one less item.

Dairy free chocolate can also bloom quicker than other products in our experience. It doesn't mean the chocolate has gone bad. This just means the cocoa butter is coming out to the surface of the product. It is really common in chocolates that have melted and re-solidified without proper tempering. 

One thing we should note is that the chocolates are all made with cocoa butter. This is a non-dairy ingredient made from the fat of the cocoa bean and has nothing to do with milk. 

No Whey! - Top 9 Allergens Free

Free From:

(As per the No Whey! website. Current as of publishing date)

Our Favourite Halloween option is the 4-pack of treats. It is 4 bags of treats for $34.95 USD instead of buying the bags individually at $9.95 USD. Find the NoWhey! Halloween 4-pack on Amazon here. If you are looking for other favourite Halloween themed treats Spooky Cookies ($18.95 /2 pack) and No Fright Bites ($18.95/2 pack) are always a hit in our house.

The Company

No Whey is a New Jersey based candy company that specialises in top allergen free sweets and chocolate. The products are manufactured in a special facility to avoid cross contact.

Stores

They are starting to become more popular in stores, especially London Drugs or Sobeys in Canada. For a wider selection of products we also order straight from the company. A No Whey! bakeshop and retail store is located in New Jersey.

In the United States NoWhey! Products are available on Amazon in the NoWhey! Store front. The Halloween selections are availble on the Amazon shop as long as quantities last. The Amazon site does NOT currently ship to Canada.

For a full list of stores that carry the products check out the company's Where to Buy page. We have noticed that some places near us on the list only carry the products seasonally and not all are year round.

Shipping

They do short runs of their products to meet demand. We recommend ordering early to allow time for shipping. Their ordering site is not always mobile friendly so ordering on a computer is easier, we have found. They ship to Canada for a shipping fee. No discounted shipping to Canada at this time of publishing. The company runs free continental US shipping with purchases over $95 on their company website, rather than Amazon.

Selection

The products are everything from our favourite No-Nos which replace and M&M or Canadian chocolate smartie to chocolate bars, pea based cups like a peanut butter cup and holiday shaped chocolate lollies. Around this time of year they sell their products individually, by the case, and in halloween treat sized bags.

Halloween

We have bought them all in the past and found the value to be better on the cases and split the candies in dollar store Halloween bags for our kids. If we are having a party or handing out the candies we get the Halloween packs for safety reasons. Our kids prefer the allergen friendly Halloween candy packs as they look like what they call "real" Halloween candy.

What I find important is that each and every candy is wrapped in a sealed packet WITH all the ingredients listed on the smaller packets. This is great if you are handing them out as tricke or treaters know exactly what ingredients are in each candy. LAbellingeach treat sized packet for ingredients is what sets NoWhey! apart from many other companies.

No Whey! runs a seasonal page for Halloween goodies and will run a separate one for Christmas and Hanukkah later in the year. The 4-pack and other Halloween treats are available on Amazon as well.

Our Experience

We order quite a bit from No Whey! Throughout the year and find the quality consistent and the kids love the taste of the candies and chocolates.

Amanda's Own - Top 11 Allergen Free

Free From:

(As per the Amanda's Own website. Current as of publishing date)

The Company

Amanda's Own is a top allergen free chocolate and sweets company from Ohio. The products are made in a dedicated facility free from the top 14 allergens.

Selection

They make jelly beans, chocolate lollipops, sunflower cups, and chocolate products. Amanda's Own has a fantastic FAQ page that has so many great answers and questions we would not always think to ask, like if they use latex in their facility. The FAQ page also talk about which other allergens, such as corn and sunflower products, and how they are in certain products but in dedicated areas of their facility.

Halloween

For Halloween they have a special line of chocolates and confectionery that are shaped like pumpkins, bats, and ghosts. They would be suitable for us to use to switch out our kids' candies with but not to give out due to the way they are packaged and the price.

The bags are more geared to give to one child and no allergen friendly Halloween candy individually packaged sweets are offered. They are instead cellophane bags with chocolates wrapped in teal foil or boxes with pieces in them which are not individually wrapped. We would not feel comforatble giving these candies to the kids if they had gotten them trick or treating. We would however order them and give them to close friends or family to give our kids as an alternative to regular candies.

Shipping

They are available directly from the website. The shipping within the US is They do ship to Canada but you must call them to order for Canadian shipping as per their FAQ page. Shipping prices are only available per order and seem to be based on weight.

Stores

Some stores do carry their lines, though what each store carries would have to be determined by contacting that store directly. The Where to Buy page has the US stores listed. There are stores in 14 states across the country.

No brick and mortar stores are listed for Canada, however there is a Canadian website that sells their products, No Nuts About Us. We did not find any seasonal products on this site.

Products are also said to be available on Amazon according to their website however when we searched Amazon.com with their name, as per what was written on their site we couldn't find any products as of October 2024. 

Our Experience

We have not tried these products yet but will update this post when we do.

Free2b - Top 9 Allergens Free ( Free From Mustard and Made without Coconut, and Corn)

Free From:

(As per the Free2B website Free From page and FAQ. Current as of publishing date)

The Company

Free2B from Staten Island NY is a company that produces candies free from many top allergens that are also vegan and gluten free as well as Kosher Pareve. The selection of goodies from this company centres on the sunflower seed butter filled chocolate cup. 

Selection

The variety of the cups is one of our favourites as they do not only a plain sun butter cup but other flavours such as enrobed in dark chocolate, sea salt and caramel or our fave the mint flavoured cups. Free2B also has a line of Crunchsters. These are made from mung beans and kind of like a corn nut snack. We haven't tried the Crunchsters yet but hope we can find them soon. 

Halloween

There is a Halloween bag-o-treats available for purchase straight from their website around Halloween. It has 20 individually wrapped sunflower seed butter cups that are perfect for handing out on Halloween, or at parties. Swap out for Reese's peanut butter cups with a Free2B cup so the kids can have an allergen friendly Halloween candy instead.

Amazon also sells the Free2B Halloween pack of 20 individually packaged sunflowerbutter cups. You can buy them here on Amazon.

Stores

In the United States our FB group members tell us that they have found the Halloween Packages in Alabama and California at Sprouts. We have also heard they may be available at select CVS and Target in the US.

The 2 pack cups are something we often buy in grocery stores and natural foods stores in Canada. We find them readily available in a lot of shops. You may not find the sunbutter cups in the candy and chocolate aisles. More commonly the Allergen Friendly candy is found in the natural foods sections of the larger grocery chains, in our experience.

There is a store finder on their website for the united states selling locations.The store locator just needs an address or zip code to find stores in the US. The tool works for the US city and postal codes of 2024.

For Canadian stores there is an email at the bottom of the store finder page with the distributer's email to contact. We used the store finder for postal codes and Canadian cities and found our favourite places to buy the Sunbutter cups.

Shipping

The shipping is free for orders over $49 US and does not include trial packs, as per the Shop page banner and footer notes. This deal is for US offers only. Free2B has limited shipping days and only will send out orders Monday to Wednesday at this current time.

There are also Halloween sunbutter cups packs available on Amazon.com in the US. They do not appear to deliver to Canada for this item on Amazon.com.

Shipping is only available within the United States at this time as Canada is not an option on the shipping estimates. Canadian stores do carry the products, particularly the Lobaw's Superstore stores in Western Canada. Check the Store Locator page for a full list of the stores.

The Free2B company has a full FAQ page with more details about shipping, allergens, and product. Do check it out as they have a lot of great info there including how they ship in warm weather.

Our Experience

We regularly buy the sunbutter cups but unfortunately haven't tried the Crunchsters yet. This is one of our kid's favourite peanut butter cup replacement treat.

YumEarth - Top 9 Allergens Free

Free From:

(As per the YumEarth website. Current as of publishing date)

The Company

A company in Connecticut,  YumEarth has a lot of candy options that are not available at other companies.This brand of Allergen Friendly Candies has loads of sweets options for many holidays. 

Selection

The selection is really great. They have suckers/lollipops they sometimes call pops, wheat free licorice, giggles that are like skittles, gummies and more. In addition to being allergen friendly the lines are all organic and some are vegan so they hit a huge market. They also carry Choco-yums which are like M&Ms or Canadian Smarties (not the American ones) and filled with chocolate in a candy shell.

Some products are produced in facilities that also contain some allergens but yet they are not ingredients in their products. Contact the company and check out their updated FAQs for more info and a new as of September 2024 Allergens Chart in PDF.

Halloween

The Halloween variety pack with gummies, giggles and pops, giggles and chewy candies pack, sour littles, or a pack of lollipops could be handed out for Halloween. The candies are in individual packages for their allergen friendly Halloween candy line.

We have not however seen, in 2024, if they have the ingredients printed on the individual bags as we would feel is personally safest for handing out candies. In past years, the lollipops didn't have ingredients on the individual pops.

When we can find a package in stores we will update the individual package info. The bagged candies are perfect for trading the kids for any candies that they collected. Portion the candies in Halloween theme bags in smaller portions for the kids.

Stores

In Canada, we find their products at local natural foods stores year round. The holiday special lines are in our stores but they do sell out quickly. 

Stores in both Canada and the USA stock YumEarth Brand allergen freindly candies. Info on where and which store are on the store locator page.

We found loads of stores in the US, including Target, where our readers have verified they have seen the Halloween collections with pictures in our FB group. All these stores listed the products they have carried at some point. You can search by specific product, as well.

We were not however, able to get this function to work consistently for Canada. Even when we searched areas we know currently carry some of the products we searched for. The search function worked for Toronto and Vancouver but not Calgary or Montreal.

Shipping

Shipping in the contiguous 48 states in the US is free for orders over $49. They do not ship to Hawaii and Alsaka as of 2024. YumEarth's shipping policy page has all the current prices and minimums for free shipping.

For international shipping the top of the store locator has a paragraph that Canadians should check Amazon.ca for their online orders. The Amazon.ca link re-directs to the Canadian YumEarth Amazon Store.

There were a variety of products, including the halloween packages on Amazon.ca. The prices are in Canadian Dollars, so they are comparable to the US site prices when the exchange rate is factored in. The delivery on the products we viewed was free for prime members.

Our Experience

For the last few years we pick up the YumEarth products for Halloween and Christmas and as treats.

Enjoy Life - Top 14 Allergens Free -DISCONTINUED!

In previous years, Enjoy Life Foods has made great individually packaged chocolate square bars. Earlier this year the company stopped producing their chocolate bar line. We reached out to the company to see if they would be doing their usual Hallowwen themed mini chocolate bars and have recieved the following answer in an email from Enjoy Life Foods on September 03, 2024:

"We have recently discontinued this product. We apologize for any inconvenience or frustration this may have caused you.

No other manufacturer is producing the product at this time. They are simply no longer in production nor distribution, and we do not have any stock available.

...It's never an easy decision for us to discontinue a product, especially when we know our consumers are so limited on their food options to begin with."

Other Options

Many Grocery stores have allergen safe versions of candies and chocolates that can be used as allergen safe Halloween candy. Check out places like Save-on, London Drugs, HEB, Sprouts, Trader Joe's, Walmart, and Whole Foods. They may carry candies that are inadvertently free from allergens. It is important though to follow up with the manufacturer on shared lines and facilities. 

Some stores have store brands that may also be safe. Check out stores like Trader Joe's Sunflower Seed Butter Cups or Oat Chocolate Bar * always check that the facilities are free from the top 8/9 and safe for you. You can find both the Sunflower Seed Butter Cups and Oat Chocoalte Bars on Amazon here.

Making Your Own Chocolates

Making chocolates from melted allergen free chocolate chips like those from Enjoy Life (available in Canada, too), Nestle Tollhouse, or Walmart's Great Value, or Pascha. Using a mould for chocolates usually made from silicone, like this one on Amazon. They can be as big or as small as you'd like. Microwave the chocolate for 20 seconds. Then stirred, returned to the microwave, to melt more for another 20 seconds, if needed. 

Then pour the melted chocolate into the moulds. Allow to cool before removing from the moulds. Moulds can be purchased at Michael's Crafts in Canada or the United States or  Amazon.

The chocolate can alternatively be tempered on the stove following the instructions from Epicurious.

FAQs

Disclaimer

We are sharing this information of what we have found on allergen friendly Halloween candy and what we have tried in our experience out of good faith. Your experiences may differ with the companies and products. Always contact the manufacturers directly to ensure the products are safe for you. We also may approach holidays a bit differently than some families.

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