Halloween in Canada means wearing your costume over a snowsuit so nobody can tell what you’re meant to be, carving pumpkins at the kitchen table, and eating candy until your stomach feels like it’s going to burst. If you’re the one answering the door this year, the good news is that a lot of the candy Canadian kids grow up on is vegan.
Rockets, Swedish Berries, Fuzzy Peach, Oreos and Kerr’s Molasses Kisses are all fine, so your bowl can look just like the ones from your childhood. The catch is that some of the same brands make near-identical candy with gelatin in it, and it sits right next to the vegan stuff in the Halloween aisle. If you’re visiting, my city guides will sort out dinner before the doorbell starts.
Vegan Halloween Candy Canada at a Glance
- The Canadian classic: Rockets, 65 rolls for about $7.
- Easiest gummies: Maynards Sour Patch Kids Tricksters, 24 Halloween pouches.
- Most Canadian: Kerr’s Molasses Kisses, labelled vegan and made in Canada.
- Cheapest per kid: Kerr’s Lollypops, 130 to a bag.
- Made with real fruit: Dare Realfruit Minis, certified plant-based.
- The chocolate one: No Whey! Choco No No’s, or Oreos if the bowl runs low.
The Best Vegan Halloween Candy in Canada
1. Rockets: The One Every Canadian Kid Knows
Rockets are the chalky, tangy little rolls in twisted wrappers, in six flavours from white orange-cream to purple grape, and they have been in Canadian Halloween bags forever. They are made in Canada from dextrose, a sugar from corn, and the Smarties Candy Company, which makes them, says all of its candy is vegan.
They don’t melt in a pillowcase, they cost next to nothing, and they are peanut-free and gluten-free too. In the US the same candy is sold as Smarties, but in Canada that name means Nestlé’s milk chocolate candies, so make sure the bag you pick up says Rockets.
Walmart.ca | 65 rolls, about $7
2. Maynards Sour Patch Kids Tricksters: The Halloween Pouches
Sour Patch Kids hit you with a puckering coat of sour sugar first and then turn into a soft, sweet chew. The Canadian recipe is sugar, glucose syrup, corn starch, fruit acids, flavour and colour, with no gelatin or beeswax. The Tricksters box holds 24 Halloween treat pouches, which makes it the easiest vegan gummy to hand out in bulk.
For a busy street, Maynards also sells a 90-pouch Halloween assortment of Sour Patch Kids, Swedish Berries and Fuzzy Peach, and all three of those are vegan in Canada. That’s the box I’d buy if you get more than a hundred kids at the door.
Snackworks | 24 pouches, 300g
3. Maynards Swedish Berries and Fuzzy Peach
Swedish Berries are a Canadian childhood in one bag: dense, chewy red berries with a glossy finish from carnauba wax, which comes from palm leaves, and no gelatin. Fuzzy Peach is the softer one, peach and orange gummies rolled in tangy sugar, and it is vegan too. Both turn up in the Halloween aisle in treat-size packs.
Maynards Wine Gums contain gelatin, and they are often on the shelf right next to these. If you pick up a mixed Maynards Halloween box, check that the only candies named on it are Sour Patch Kids, Swedish Berries and Fuzzy Peach.
Walmart.ca Halloween treats | Swedish Berries ingredients | treat-size packs and bags
4. Skittles: Skip the Mixed Bags
Skittles are the crunchy-shelled, chewy fruit candies in strawberry, orange, lemon, lime and grape, and the Canadian ones have no gelatin, so they are vegan. Indigo carmine in the colours sounds suspicious, but it is a synthetic blue dye with nothing to do with carmine, the red dye made from insects.
The trap is the Skittles and Starburst Halloween packs. Canadian Starburst contains gelatin, so buy the Skittles on their own, and keep a 170g bag back for yourself.
Walmart.ca | 170g bag, $2.98
5. Kerr’s Molasses Kisses: The Most Canadian Candy There Is
Molasses Kisses are chewy taffies made with blackstrap molasses, sweet with a deep, slightly bitter edge, in orange and black wrappers covered in pumpkins and witches. Kerr’s labels them vegan. They have been handed out at Canadian doors for generations, and people either love them or leave them at the bottom of the bag until Christmas.
Kerr’s has been making candy in Ontario since 1895. Their Original Recipe pack at Canadian Tire mixes in milk chocolate kisses, so buy the plain 50-piece Molasses Kisses bag.
Kerr’s | 380g bag, about 50 pieces, $6.95
6. Kerr’s Lollypops and Fruit Taffy SOURS
Kerr’s assorted fruit lollypops come 130 to a bag and are labelled vegan, which makes them the cheapest way to give every trick-or-treater something. Fruit Taffy SOURS are the plant-based sour version of Kerr’s chewy fruit taffy, if you want something to chew from the same maker.
Kerr’s regular Fruit Taffy contains gelatin, so look for SOURS on the bag. The SOURS were sold out on the Kerr’s online shop in early October 2026, so look for them at the grocery store.
Lollypops at Kerr’s | Fruit Taffy SOURS at Kerr’s | 130 lollypops, $12.95
7. Dare Realfruit Minis: Certified Plant-Based Gummies
Dare’s Realfruit Minis are soft fruit gummies made with real fruit purée, certified plant-based and set without gelatin. They come as 50 little 12g packs, which is exactly what a Halloween bowl needs, and they are the best vegan gummy multipack from a Canadian brand.
Dare has been making cookies and candy in Kitchener, Ontario, since 1892. These are the ones I’d grab if you want something a little less neon.
Dare | 50 mini packs
8. No Whey! Choco No No’s: Vegan Chocolate Candies
Choco No No’s are No Whey!’s answer to M&Ms: crunchy candy shells around chocolate, made in a dedicated facility that is free of the top allergens, and 100% vegan. The Halloween edition comes as eight mini packs, so it is one for the kids you know, or for your own party.
Goodness Me! also carries the Halloween Milkless mini bars from the same brand, if you want plain chocolate.
Fair/Square | Goodness Me! | 8 mini packs, $14.95
9. Oreos: Every Vegan’s Favourite Cookie
Yes, Oreos are vegan in Canada. The Original has no milk in the ingredients and no may-contain-milk warning on the pack, so you can hand them out, dunk them in oat milk, or eat a whole sleeve on the couch. No wonder they’re a staple in every vegan cupboard.
Golden Oreos, the vanilla ones, are vegan too. The fudge-covered Oreos, in both chocolate and white fudge, contain milk, so leave those on the shelf.
They’re also one of the cheapest things on this list, and every grocery store in the country stocks them, so they’re the easiest top-up when the bowl starts running low on Halloween night.
Walmart.ca | Ingredients at Snackworks | 270g pack, $2.98
More Vegan Candy for the Bowl
- SmartSweets Sour Zombie Buddies: plant-based, from a Vancouver company. Every SmartSweets candy is plant-based except the three Gummy Worm flavours, and the Halloween Gummy Worms contain gelatin. SmartSweets
- YumEarth Halloween Pops: organic, vegan and free of the top allergens, 60 to a bag at Well.ca when in stock. Well.ca
Halloween, the Canadian Way
Canada has a pretty good claim to trick-or-treating. The earliest known use of the phrase “trick or treat” in print comes from an Alberta newspaper in 1927, before it caught on in the United States.
From the 1950s, Canadian kids also carried little orange UNICEF boxes door to door, collecting coins for children around the world alongside their candy. If you grew up here in the 80s or 90s, you probably remember the rattle of that box more than any costume you wore.
And if carving one pumpkin feels like a lot of effort, spare a thought for Windsor, Nova Scotia, where people hollow out giant pumpkins weighing hundreds of kilos and paddle them from Falmouth to Windsor. The 2026 Pumpkin Regatta is on Sunday 11 October.
The Ones That Catch People Out
- Canadian Smarties, Coffee Crisp, Wunderbar and Kinder: milk chocolate.
- Maynards Wine Gums: gelatin.
- Starburst: gelatin, which makes the Skittles and Starburst mixes a no.
- Tootsie Pops: milk ingredients.
- Dubble Bubble gumballs: confectioner’s glaze, which is shellac. The twist gum is different.
- Nerds Rainbow: carmine, a red dye made from insects.
- SmartSweets Gummy Worms, including the Halloween ones: gelatin.
- Kerr’s regular Fruit Taffy: gelatin.
Vegan Halloween Candy Canada: What to Know Before You Buy
- Read for these words: gelatin, carmine or cochineal, confectioner’s glaze or shellac, beeswax, milk, whey, egg and honey. Indigo carmine is a synthetic dye and fine.
- May contain milk is an allergy warning. It means shared equipment, not an ingredient. Fine for vegans, but skip those for a child with a milk allergy.
- Canadian recipes are their own thing. American and British ingredient lists do not apply here, so read the Canadian label, and read it again each year because recipes change.
- Mixed Halloween boxes are where gelatin sneaks in. Single-candy boxes are the safe buy, unless every candy named on the mixed box is one from this list.
Vegan Halloween Candy Canada FAQ
Are Rockets vegan?
Yes. The company that makes Rockets says all of its candy is vegan. They are made from corn dextrose and are peanut-free and gluten-free.
Are Smarties vegan in Canada?
No. Canadian Smarties are Nestlé milk chocolate. The American candy called Smarties is sold in Canada as Rockets, and that is vegan.
Are Swedish Berries vegan?
Yes. Maynards Swedish Berries have no gelatin and are glazed with carnauba wax. Fuzzy Peach is vegan too.
Are Maynards Wine Gums vegan in Canada?
No, the Canadian recipe contains gelatin. Swedish Berries and Fuzzy Peach and Sour Patch Kids are the vegan Maynards candies.
Are Skittles vegan in Canada?
Yes, Canadian Skittles have no gelatin. Skip the Skittles and Starburst mixes, because Starburst contains gelatin.
Are Molasses Kisses vegan?
Yes. Kerr’s Molasses Kisses are labelled vegan. The Original Recipe pack with milk chocolate kisses is not.
Are Oreos vegan in Canada?
Yes. Original and Golden Oreos have no milk in the ingredients. The fudge-covered Oreos contain milk.