Yes, many Nestlé chocolates contain palm oil, used for texture and shelf life, with the company stating they use palm oil in various products and are committed to sourcing it sustainably and traceable, though they've faced criticism and challenges with this promise. You can usually find palm oil listed as "palm oil," "vegetable oil," or "palm fat" on ingredient labels, with some brands like Divine and Tony's Chocolonely offering palm oil-free options.
Many of the best known chocolate bars and boxes contain palm oil – from Galaxy Caramel and Lindt to Nutella and Ferrero Rocher. In fact, the biggest chocolate bar and box brands all use palm oil, including Mars, Nestle, and Mondelez (owner of Cadbury's).
Most of Cadbury and Mars range of bars seem to contain palm oil. Lindt, and Green and Blacks bars don't use it.
Cadbury can make chocolate without palm oil — they do it in New Zealand and Australia — but here in the UK, Europe and South Africa they are using palm oil.
Palm Oil in Food Products
Nestlé, Kellogg, Mars, Wrigley, Nabisco, PepsiCo, General Mills, and Hershey are a few companies that use palm oil in their food products. Some are committing to using only 100% certified sustainable palm oil.
Check the label: It is EU law for food products to clearly label palm oil when it is used, so check the ingredient list. Be extra aware of foods that commonly contain palm oil such as sliced bread, crisps, and biscuits. Try to buy food marked with a sustainable palm oil logo.
We are committed to buy and use Certified Sustainable Palm Oil only in the processing of our In-Store Bakery goods. Our internal system gap analysis of In-Store Bakeries has also identified control points where additional RSPO requirements will be put in place to ensure traceability.
Choose Davies Chocolates for Palm Oli-Free Chocolate in Australia.
Palm oil, palm kernel oil, and their fractions are used in limited amounts in certain fillings of our chocolate. Lindt & Sprüngli buys less than 0.01% of the global palm oil harvest.
So instead it's great to see options like this from Aldi which is much much better quality milk chocolate! They don't use palm oil to make manufacturing cheaper and the cocoa solids are what milk chocolate should be - 33%!
MidBreak Jowar Atta Biscuits – 200g Pack of 1 | Millet Cookies | No Maida | Egg-Free | No Added Sugar | Palm Oil Free | High in Fiber & Protein | Wholesome Baked Snack.
At Ferrero, we use palm oil to enhance the rich taste and creamy texture of our products, as well as to extend their shelf life and quality when consumers store our products at home. As it is an important ingredient, we have been working for a long time to source our palm oil responsibly.
Palm oil, palm kernel oil, and coconut oil — the so-called tropical oils — got a bad reputation because they're high in saturated fat, which has long been linked to heart disease. Saturated fat boosts "bad" LDL cholesterol and triglycerides, both of which are risk factors for heart disease.
Tonys Chocolonely Dark Creamy Hazelnut Crunch - 180g.
Why are people boycotting Nestle? Nestlé has allegedly operated for decades with "zero accountability" and has been "putting profits over people and exploiting communities around the world," Schwarz claimed in a social media post on Sunday.
Criticisms and controversies
In March 2010, Kit Kat was targeted for a boycott by Greenpeace for using palm oil, which the environmental organisation claimed resulted in destruction of forest habitats for orangutans in Indonesia.
To date, none of our production sites are halal certified and, therefore, we do not use any halal labels on our packaging. However, some of our products are made without animal products and without alcohol, such as our Lindt EXCELLENCE range of 70%, 70% mild, 85%, 85% mild, 90% and 99% cacao chocolate bars.
It's often added to chocolate to replace melt-in-your-mouth texture that cocoa butter creates. It's a more stable oil that doesn't separate like other vegetable oils. Chocolate companies that want a product with a creamy texture, but want to keep their costs down, will swap the cocoa butter for palm oil.
Ingredients. Nutella is often advertised along with milk and hazelnuts, although these ingredients constitute a small fraction of the recipe. The main ingredients of Nutella are sugar and palm oil (greater than 50%).
We use palm oil - an edible vegetable oil derived from the fruit of oil palm trees - in a number of our products. It's a versatile and highly efficient ingredient, requiring less land for production than any other oilseed crop (including soy, sunflower, rapeseed or coconut).
We become proudly 100% palm oil free in all of our Darrell Lea products.
The healthiest chocolate at Woolworths generally leans towards high-cocoa dark chocolate like Pico Super Dark (85% or higher) for minimal sugar and simple ingredients, or Well Naturally No Sugar Added options (especially dark) sweetened with stevia for lower sugar/carb intake, with brands like Pico and Well Naturally often highlighted by nutritionists for healthier choices due to real ingredients and no artificial sweeteners.
What common products contain palm oil? Apart from the majority of soaps, cleaners and shampoos on the market containing palm oil, many people are shocked to learn that Arnott's Tim Tams also contain palm oil. In fact, palm oil is so widely used in consumer products that it is increasingly difficult to avoid.
From farm to finger, Australia's Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) restaurants, switched in 2012 from imported sustainable palm oil to 100 per cent Australian-grown high oleic canola oil, to cook their legendary 'finger licking' golden fried chicken and chips.
To avoid palm oil, choose products that contain clearly labeled oils, such as 100 percent sunflower oil, corn oil, olive oil, coconut oil, or canola oil.