Most of the nerds I know are not vegan, but is Nerds candy vegan? Nerds come in two flavors: strawberry and grape. These flavors are typically sold as a side-by-side combo, and they both contain the same ingredients – they are essentially just little pellets of artificially colored and flavored sugar. Unfortunately, Nerds use the insect-derived pigment, carmine, which means Nerds are not vegan.
Willy Wonka Nerds, Strawberry and Grape Ingredients:
- Dextrose,
- Sugar,
- Malic Acid, and Less than 2% of Corn Syrup,
- Artificial Flavors,
- Carnauba Wax,
- Color Added,
- Carmine Color,
- Blue 1,
- Blue 1 Lake,
- Blue 2,
- Blue 2 Lake,
- Red 40,
- Red 40 Lake,
- Yellow 5,
- Yellow 5 Lake,
- Yellow 6,
- Yellow 6 Lake.
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