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Pim's Pick 'N' Mix

Gelatin-Free Candy

Gelatin-free candy is easier to find on a Swedish wall than an American one, because starch and gum arabic do the work that gelatin does elsewhere. Every candy on this page is marked gelatin-free by its maker, and each product page carries the full ingredient list so you can check the detail that matters to you.

Mix these into your own bag

Every candy on this shelf goes into the same custom bag, picked piece by piece and weighed by the pound.

Build your bag

Sweets without gelatin, by the pound

Starch instead of gelatin

Most of this shelf is set with starch rather than gelatin, which is why it eats differently from an American gummy: a shorter, cleaner bite instead of a long stretch. A handful use gum arabic, the old way of making a hard-shelled sweet, and one uses fruit pectin. Bubs whips its foam with potato protein, which is how the most shared candy of the decade turned out to be gelatin-free without trying. Worth knowing, though: foam is not a safe bet by itself, and plenty of Swedish skum candy does use gelatin, so go by this shelf rather than by texture. Sour pieces, toffee, licorice and chocolate fill out the rest.

Gelatin-free is not the same as vegan

This is the distinction worth reading carefully, because a lot of shops blur it. Of the candies on this shelf, roughly half are also marked vegan and roughly half are not: they contain milk, butterfat, beeswax or carmine, none of which is gelatin. If your reason for avoiding gelatin is that you do not eat animal ingredients at all, use the vegan shelf instead, because it is the stricter filter. If gelatin itself is the thing you are avoiding, this page is the complete list and the toffee and chocolate are back on the table.

Enough range for a whole bag

There is no compromise bag here. Sour pieces are the biggest group on this shelf, then chocolate and toffee, then gummies, foam, licorice and a few hard candies, so a two pound bag of gelatin-free candy can be built entirely from this page and still taste like a proper pick and mix rather than a short list of what was left. Mix it in the builder piece by piece, from half a pound up to two pounds a bag, and we weigh and pack it by hand in Boca Raton. One thing we will not print: halal. No certification exists for this range, and gelatin-free is not the same claim, so we leave it alone rather than imply something we cannot back.