Is There Such a Thing as Vegan Chocolate?
September 12, 2010
Vegan foods cannot contain any animal products.
Most dark chocolates qualify as vegan because all the ingredients are sourced from plants. A dark chocolate label will list sugar, chocolate liquor, cocoa butter, soya lecithin (from soybean), and vanilla.
There are some dark chocolates that add butter oil, but you would know this by reading the ingredient statement on the label.
All ingredients must be declared on the label so that consumers know exactly what the product contains and can make informed decisions based on these ingredients.
Milk chocolate, of course, contains milk which is a dairy product from an animal. Candy bars, boxed chocolates and other confections and novelties may have a variety of additives that make them ineligible to be vegan.
Always read the label to be sure.
You probably won’t find dark chocolate marketed as “vegan” because it is normally free of animal products, not specially made as a vegan option.
I guess you could say chocolate is vegan by accident!
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Of course there’s. Chocolate may be a plant product. Unless milk, butterfat or alternative non-vegan ingredients has been added to it, chocolate is vegan by default.
Hi Bryn,
What I notice about some vegan products (That I appreciate) is that the products are made from coconut milk. Yum!
-bd