Many brands offer palm oil-free chocolate, including Tony's Chocolonely, Divine Chocolate, Moo Free, Vego, Booja-Booja, and Paccari, with options ranging from artisan bars to everyday treats, and some major brands like Darrell Lea (in some regions) also removing it from their products. Look for labels like "palm oil free," as formulations can vary by country, and check brands like Hu, Ombar, and several smaller ethical producers.
Is Lindt using Palm Oil and is it sourced sustainably? 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.
Choose Davies Chocolates for Palm Oli-Free Chocolate in Australia.
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).
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. 💔 Every 4 days, 3 British dairy farmers go out of business because companies make choices like this.
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We become proudly 100% palm oil free in all of our Darrell Lea products.
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.
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.
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%!
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.
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.
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.
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.
There's no single "#1 best" chocolate, as taste is subjective, but top contenders often include Domori (Italy) for rare cacao, Teuscher (Switzerland) for luxury truffles, Cacaosuyo (Peru) for award-winning origin bars, and brands like Lindt, Godiva, Dandelion Chocolate, and Lake Champlain for quality and widespread appeal, with winners varying by awards and personal preference.
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.
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.
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.
In the US, Cadbury Dairy Milk does NOT contain #PalmOil… but in the UK, Ireland & South Africa, it does.
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Subway seeks to uphold standards for sustainable palm oil in our own supply chain, even though it is not a primary ingredient, as we continually seek alternative ingredients that have fewer potential supply chain impacts. At Subway, the breadth of ingredients that come from farms are key to making our menu unique.
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.
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.
Darrell Lea collapsed in 2012 due to a combination of declining sales from shifting consumer tastes (favoring smaller, organic treats over bulky chocolates), unsustainable costs from unprofitable standalone stores, competition from supermarkets selling cheaper home brands, and a failure to adapt to market changes like fair trade trends, all culminating in voluntary administration despite the brand's iconic status.
The palm oil in Ferrero products comes from a certified 'segregated' supply chain. It is sourced from different certified plantations and is kept separate from ordinary palm oil throughout the supply chain.