Gluten Free Halloween Candy

Those of us in the gluten free world spend a lot of time reading food labels!  But who wants to spend all that time looking at the tiny print ingredients on the fun size Halloween candy in your child’s Halloween loot bag?  And most of the time the ingredients are listed on the bulk candy package, but not the individual piece wrappers inside.  So here is an alphabetized list I’ve put together to simplify the process for you (I used my previous Gluten Free Ingredients List as a reference, noting that Dextrose in the US is usually derived from corn unless the product identifies a wheat source as they are required to do in the US):

• 3 Musketeers Candy Bar:  Safe
• 100 Grand Candy Bar:  Contains gluten as Barley Malt is used for the crisped rice
• Almond Joy Candy Bar:  Safe
• Baby Ruth Candy Bar:  Safe
• Butterfinger:  Safe (Confectioners Corn Flakes are Gluten Free)
• Candy Corn:  Safe ingredients, but note that Brachs brand is packaged on equipment that also packages wheat products
• Caramels:  Safe
• Charleston Chew:  Safe
• Crunch Candy Bar:  Contains gluten as Barley Malt is used for the crisped rice
• Dots:  Safe
• Heath Tofee Bar:  Safe
• Hershey Chocolate Bar:  Safe
• Hershey’s Cookies ‘N Creme Bar: Contains gluten as there is wheat flour in the cookie part
• Jelly Candies:  Safe
• Jolly Rancher Doubles Candy:  Safe
• Jolly Rancher Hard Candy:  Safe
• Junior Mints:  Safe
• Licorice Whips:  Contains gluten in the wheat flour
• M&Ms:  Safe
• Marshmallow Peeps:  Safe (states Gluten Free on the Package)
• Milk Duds:  Safe
• Mounds Candy Bar:  Safe
• Nerds:  Safe
• Pumpkin Mallo-Cremes:  Safe ingredients, but note that Brachs brand is packaged on equipment that also packages wheat products
• Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups:  Safe
• Red Vines:  Contains gluten in the wheat flour
• Skittles:  Safe (states Gluten Free on the Package)
• Starburst:  Safe (uses Corn Dextrin)
• Tootsie Roll:  Safe
• Tootsie Roll Pops:  Safe
• Twizzlers:  Contains gluten in the wheat flour
• Whoppers: Contains gluten because of the Malt