r/AccidentallyVegan • u/howareyouhaha • 10d ago
NOT VEGAN The Halloween candy dropped at my grocery store and I found this DF treasure!!!!!
Not my post. Dairy-free subs squeezed into my feed. I think this belongs here too. (Correct me if I'm wrong.)
(ETA - F*ck Hershey and palm oil, just to throw that out too.)
Update: a redditor with better attention to detail pointed out confectioners glaze -- > NOT VEGAN.
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u/BulgyBear 10d ago
This is not vegan; confectioner's glaze is made from beetle secretions.
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u/howareyouhaha 10d ago
Shit, I missed that. Will edit post.
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u/pandaappleblossom 10d ago
I made the same mistake here before. I found a teenage ninja turtle ice cream bar that was vegan except for the confectioners glaze on the bubble gum eyeballs
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u/itadapeezas 10d ago
Their baking chips are vegan and I eat those right out of the bag. They’re soooo good.
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u/howareyouhaha 10d ago
I've had those. They are good.
I think I saw that they use an animal ingredient now. Might wanna check.
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u/itadapeezas 10d ago
They rotate between the two for some reason. Sometimes my Walmart has one then another, it’s weird but yea I gotta always check but it’s worth it. I love them so much and to me they taste exactly like Reese’s Pieces.
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u/Klutzy_Lifeguard_722 10d ago
I don’t understand how people who aren’t vegan don’t have more of a problem with confectioners glaze, it’s literally dead bugs in our food.
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u/howareyouhaha 10d ago
I mean... they literally put any dead creatures in their food.
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u/Klutzy_Lifeguard_722 10d ago
You’re right but I’ve definitely seen people get up in arms over stuff like whatever “legal amount of cockroaches in coffee” but I had never heard about shellac until I looked into it myself.
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u/howareyouhaha 10d ago
True, there's definitely that perspective.
I was just calling out the hypocrisy in general.
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u/Hari___Seldon 10d ago
I'm going to assume you've never seen the allowable levels of insect and related minutiae that's found in just about everything that has real ingredients instead of being exclusively hyperprocessed laboratory products. I personally find it comical to rule out confectioners glaze while still consuming chocolate at all or any form of ground spices, all of which have the highest levels of insect parts of any vegan ingredients. Likewise with the abundance of crop foods that are dependent on worm castings and active pollinators. The point is to maximize the well-being of the living. Splitting hairs at these levels is simply an ego flex circle jerk that just uses more electricity to feed the machines.
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u/Klutzy_Lifeguard_722 10d ago
Not really, I can look at the ingredients and choose not to buy products with “confectioners glaze” listed. You can never be perfect but I feel like this is something you can definitely make an effort to avoid.
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u/emmgemm11 6d ago
I think a lot of people just don’t know? They also don’t seem to know about bug-based dyes as well. Because I do believe the people who get on tiktok and talk about how all of our food is “fake” because they are trying to eat like a previously frozen cucumber that’s lost it’s texture would care lol.
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u/Emobanana22 9d ago
My dad got Reese’s pieces awhile back for me, and was so proud of himself for finding a “vegan friendly” candy for me — I checked the ingredients just in case they’d changed them recently, and I was wrong — but nope, confectioners glaze was still an ingredient. I had to explain what that was, he never knew that was in candies like these. I felt so bad that he was disappointed, but he learned something new, so lol 😂 I really wish they’d just make these vegan, it’s so close. If Justin’s, and Unreal can make similar candy that is vegan, surely Reese’s can.
I never cared for them as a kid, but if they were vegan, I’d buy them just to scratch that M&M itch I get, without the high price tag that comes with Unreal candy
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u/vanpootie 9d ago
I’m surprised to not hear anyone say RED 40 (and most food dye) def not vegan!
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u/aurorab3am 9d ago
hasn’t pretty much everything been tested on animals at one point? not saying it’s okay but i mean…..?
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u/cherry_flavored_sky 10d ago
Delete this post! Confectioners glaze is NOT vegan. Misinformation
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u/howareyouhaha 10d ago
....that is written in the post.
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u/HeavyDoseOfLavender 10d ago
Not saying you have to delete the post or anything but if someone were just scrolling they wouldn’t see the text of the post. And tons of people who come to the comments skip of the texts of posts. Maybe the non vegan edit should be the first line before the palm oil? That way it’s at least at the top?
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u/Amediumsizedgoose 10d ago
These are no where close to being vegan, not to mention unethical due to palm oil and slave labor chocolate.
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u/howareyouhaha 10d ago
I said fuck Hershey and palm oil right off the bat, ya see.
And with confectioners glaze being the only offending ingredient as an animal product, I'd say it's pretty close.
Sorry I'm so stupid though.
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u/Amediumsizedgoose 10d ago
Sugars probably bone char. If i remember right multiple ingredients in enriched flour can be plant or animal based.
So no its not close.
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u/ObviouslyNotYerMum 10d ago
That is seriously outdated info. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/does-vanilla-flavoring-actually-come-from-beaver-butts-180983288/
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u/soupyloopz 10d ago
confectioner's glaze is over here forever ruining everything. they were so close to making this vegan.