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Healthy Home Economist / Archives / Healthy Living / Safe Candy Brands for Easter!

Safe Candy Brands for Easter!

by Sarah Pope / Affiliate Links ✔

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  • Best Candy Brands+−
    • Raw Honey Mint Patties
    • White Chocolate Nut Butter Cups
    • Heavenly Safe Chocolates
  • “Good” (but not “Best”)
  • Brands to Avoid

The best candy brands to consider for filling your child’s Easter basket with treats that are delicious and won’t harm their health with toxic additives.

safe candy brands in child Easter basket

Teaching candy moderation with kids is high on the list of important health habits to learn.

I don’t think it is ever a good idea to let kids eat candy and sweets in an unrestrained manner even during a holiday like Easter.

An unbalanced approach to diet where candy is concerned can lead to sugar addiction issues later.

The goal is to choose whole food treats that are delicious, but at the same time, do not contain high fructose corn syrup, additives, chemicals, or artificial colorings/natural flavorings that could harm health.

I also favor putting just a few items in the basket even if all qualify in the “healthier” category. Why do kids need piles of candy?

With these goals in mind, below are the best candies to consider for Easter baskets (or any other appropriate holiday).

I’ve combed through all the brands I could find at my local health food stores, and here’s what I found!

Best Candy Brands

I’ve only found three candy brands that I feel 100% comfortable buying for my family.

While these are widely available commercial brands, if you have a local artisan making candy in small batches by hand, this would be another source to investigate in your community!

Raw Honey Mint Patties

Heavenly Organics mint chocolate honey patties have been a favorite treat of our family for many years. They contain just three ingredients:

Ingredients: Raw organic white honey, unsweetened organic chocolate, peppermint oil

Your family will be thrilled with them too. They taste fantastic!

White Chocolate Nut Butter Cups

Giving chocolate to children is certainly a controversial subject within the traditional food community.

My approach while my three were growing up was to let them have healthy forms of chocolate a few times a year. My goal was to not raise them in a bubble to avoid a boomerang effect later.

If your preferred approach is to not allow chocolate at all or to minimize it like we did, then these organic white chocolate nut butter cups are a good brand to consider for the occasional treat.

The presence of the roasted nut butter cuts down the amount of carbs in the candy significantly.

Heavenly Safe Chocolates

The Easter and other holiday candies from Heavenly Safe Chocolates contain only three ingredients:

Organic Cane Sugar, Unsweetened Chocolate, Cocoa Butter [nondairy]

My husband and I would get the Easter Bunny lollipop for our kids’ baskets once they were school-age.

None of them eat hardly any chocolate as adults, so a balanced “moderation is key” approach seemed to work well over the long term.

“Good” (but not “Best”)

These brands below are acceptable but not “best” as I feel they are too high in chocolate and refined organic sugar.

They also contain a few additives such as denatured milk powder, sweetened condensed milk, and/or food gums that are optimally avoided if a better brand is available.

  1. Unreal
  2. Ocho

Brands to Avoid

I used to recommend Yummy Earth lollipops, gummy bears, and similar candies.

However, further research on the dangers of natural flavors has caused me to reconsider this ingredient as actually safe.

“Natural flavors” aren’t really that natural after all! Worse, they contain highly toxic solvent residues when lab-tested!

Thus, I would suggest avoiding even organic candy brands that list any type of “natural flavors” on the label.

“Avoid” brands include:

  • Honest gummies
  • Annie’s gummies
  • Yummy Earth
  • Surf Sweets
  • Smart Sweets

Have you found any other brand of candy that you feel is safe? Please share it with us!

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Sarah Pope

Sarah Pope MGA has been a Health and Nutrition Educator since 2002. She is a summa cum laude graduate in Economics from Furman University and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

She is the author of three books: Amazon #1 bestseller Get Your Fats Straight, Traditional Remedies for Modern Families, and Living Green in an Artificial World.

Her four eBooks Good Diet…Bad Diet, Real Food Fermentation, Ketonomics, and Ancestrally Inspired Dairy-Free Recipes are available for complimentary download via Healthy Home Plus.

Her mission is dedicated to helping families effectively incorporate the principles of ancestral diets within the modern household. She is a sought after lecturer around the world for conferences, summits, and podcasts.

Sarah was awarded Activist of the Year in 2010 at the International Wise Traditions Conference, subsequently serving on the Board of Directors of the nutrition nonprofit the Weston A. Price Foundation for seven years.

Her work has been covered by numerous independent and major media including USA Today, ABC, and NBC among many others.

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Comments (23)

  1. Mitch

    Dec 6, 2012 at 11:23 am

    Kristina I just read this post and even though Easter has paessd I thought I’d add a comment. My issue is just the opposite: for years I filled the Easter baskets, hid the candy, got everyone off to Church, made a big meal, etc. Now MY children have grown up, moved away (too far for us to be together for just a day), and have children of their own. To say our Easter traditions have evolved is an understatement! All of our grandchildren receive Easter cards with a treat inside (money, gift cards). The Don and I now invite friends for a nice Easter dinner (with ham always the centerpiece). We still celebrate but our traditions different and that’s how life goes, I think!

    Reply
  2. Abbey

    Apr 7, 2012 at 11:05 am

    Kyla, I’d love to see your cake recipe!

    Reply
  3. Tara

    Apr 7, 2012 at 8:59 am

    Great article, thank you! What would you suggest we do with the candy from Grandma’s? It seems that they always get a sugar overload there. I have considered paying them for every piece of candy that they bring home?? Any thoughts/suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thank you so much!

    Reply
  4. its easter

    Mar 19, 2012 at 2:52 am

    This blog is content amazing information about Easter gift which is very useful for me. It very important information about Easter festival.
    Thank you very much for this great information.
    Easter Gift Basket Ideas For Children

    Reply
  5. Teresa

    Mar 7, 2011 at 2:28 am

    What great ideas for kids at easter! I also like to make Easter games and Easter coloring pages and include them as Easter treats.Easter Activities

    Reply
  6. Sherill

    Mar 30, 2010 at 11:24 am

    I have found the Yummy Earth Organic Lollipops at both Abby's and Nutrition Smart which are both in Carrollwood on North Dale Mabry. They were available individually at the checkout counter in Abby's (only $.25 each – not sure if they sell them by the bag there) and definitely by the large bag at Nutrition Smart (don't remember price). Haven't checked yet for the Gummy Bears or the Mint Patties.

    Reply
    • Jerri

      Sep 15, 2022 at 8:14 pm

      I did notice the gummy bears have citric acid in them, though

  7. Mama G

    Mar 24, 2010 at 2:08 pm

    My husband and I have decided that we are going to give our son a game or activity and set up a scavenger hunt to find it. We bought a very small basket for him to collect the eggs with his clues. He's only eight months but we hope if we start him off right we won't have to worry about the expectation of candy. Plus we get to have fun doing the scavenger hunts until he is old enough to do them by himself.

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  8. Sarah, the Healthy Home Economist

    Mar 24, 2010 at 11:25 am

    Healthfood stores should carry them (Abby's in Carrollwood has the raw honey mint patties). If not, ask them to start stocking them! Most healthfood stores are more than happy to oblige.

    Reply
  9. Rick

    Mar 24, 2010 at 3:13 am

    We also got a few rolls of quarters and put them in the plastic eggs and hid them around the house… I think they liked that more then the candy.
    r

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  10. Anonymous

    Mar 24, 2010 at 2:23 am

    Sarah, where do you purchase those items in the Tampa Bay area? I am just thrilled to find some alternatives to the garbage sold at the big chain stores for Easter candy.

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