![]() So, it looks like we don’t know if technically Sour Patch Watermelon can be considered a vegan candy. Sour Patch Watermelon has these artificial colors and flavors. For some vegans, this can be a problem and so they want to avoid any artificial colors and flavors. Artificial colors and flavors are tested for safety on animals. Although they are made from chemicals and are not derived from animal products, there is an issue with food colorings and stricter vegans. The next ingredients of concern are artificial colors and flavors. It might be, but it might not be as well. So we don’t know if the sugar is vegan or not. So, as far as the sugar used in Sour Patch Watermelon, there seems to be no way to know if is created using bone char or not. (Learn more at Is Sugar Vegan?) But it does still exist. And also, most sugar in the US is made using sugar beets and not sugar cane as well. In fact, almost all sugar in the UK and most sugar in the US is not made using bone char anymore. There is another way of whitening cane sugar that uses activated charcoal instead of bone char. See also Are Sour Patch Kids Gluten Free? A lot of times since the companies purchase their sugar from outside companies, even they won’t know how the sugar was processed. The issue is that when it comes to sugar in the U.S., some of it is produced not using bone char or some is produced using bone char. Bone char is not vegan friendly since it is derived from the bones of cattle. When sugar cane is used, sometimes something called bone char is used to whiten the sugar when it’s processed. The other way that sugar is made uses sugar cane. One way is using beets and is completely vegan friendly. The first ingredient of concern for Sour Patch Watermelon is going to be sugar. Sour Patch Watermelon Ingredients of Concern Since Titanium Dioxide is not an animal-based product of concern, the issue of Sour Patch Watermelon being vegan and Sour Patch Kids being vegan is going to be the same. The only difference from the Sour Patch Kids ingredients is the addition of Titanium Dioxide. Let’s have a look at those.įirst, let’s understand that Sour Patch Kids and Sour Patch Watermelon are almost the same product. But there may be some other ingredients of concern for some vegans. So, that does not need to be worried about. We see that gelatin is not listed as an ingredient. ![]() Sour Patch Watermelon Ingredients Sour Patch Watermelon Ingredients – No Gelatin The ingredients list is found on the Sour Patch Watermelon official page. Unlike, Sour Patch Kids, Sour Patch Watermelon only seems to have one version of the candy that I have seen. So, now let’s see if Sour Patch Watermelon have gelatin in them or not. Some have gelatin and some don’t.īut it seems as if Sour Patch Watermelon may not have two different formulas. There are two different formulas, depending on your location, so there have been different versions of Sour Patch Kids seen. In the post Does Sour Patch Kids Have Gelatin we examined if Sour Patch Kids had gelatin in them or not. So even if the candy does not have an obvious animal product in it, it still might not be technically considered a vegan candy.Īlso, some candies that you would think have gelatin such as Swedish Fish, do not have gelatin but use other gelling agents. A lot of candies will use gelatin as the gelling agent that causes certain candies to have a chewiness. So, anything that has gelatin in it, would be considered non-vegan. It’s a product that is derived from the grinding of animal bones, mainly cows and pigs. The first thing we need to look at for most chewy candies to know if it is vegan or not is to look for gelatin. Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Google Podcasts Listen on Stitcher Listen on Castbox Listen on Pocket Casts Listen on Pandora Listen on Podcast Addict ![]()
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