Many people see the word vegan and automatically think tofu, brown rice, and veggies. Basically anything healthy, right? Today going vegan is becoming more popular and easier than ever; we still have our favorite junk foods! Take a look at these accidental vegan snacks. I'm sure one or two will have you just as shocked as I was.
1. Oreos
Oreos is the most shocking on this list to me. What do you mean the amazingly delicious filling isn’t made from dairy? Like many foods, the easy way to mock a buttery taste is with oils. And that's just what Nabisco did when it comes to making Oreos. Originally, these great cookies were not made animal product free, but in 1997 Nabisco took the vegan route.
2. Jell-O Instant Pudding
Now, while Jell-O instant pudding isn’t the healthiest, it can be made vegan. The pudding is made up of sugar and a bunch of chemicals that I can’t pronounce to save my life. But instead of adding regular dairy milk like the box suggests, just substitute with almond or soy!
3. Duncan Hines Whipped Frosting
Frosting! Can you believe this stuff is dairy-free? I'm a huge frosting fan, so when I found this out, I couldn’t believe it. Duncan Hines whipped frosting's leading ingredients are sugar, cocoa powder, and vegetable oil. Now you can slap this on your vegan cakes and feel like the princess you are.
4. Skittles
Skittles wasn’t very shocking for me, but you never know what they’re putting into our foods and candies these days. Skittles are little round pieces of sugar, corn syrup, citric acid, and a bunch of color dyes. Go on and taste that rainbow.
5. Cracker Jack
Cracker Jack will always be that great childhood memory. You know, the one where you’d find the prize inside and also get 10,000 pieces of popcorn kernels stuck in your teeth and you wanted to die. Oh was that just me? Well, Cracker Jack stands vegan with their pretty basic ingredients. Sugar, corn syrup, popcorn, peanuts, molasses, corn, and soybean oils.
6. Unfrosted Pop Tarts
Unfrosted pop-tarts are something I’d probably be lying to myself if I said I was enjoying them. But alas, the frosted ones are not vegan! While the flavors vary, some contain dairy and some contain gelatin. It’s best to always check the labels anyway. A great idea if you really want to go into cardiac arrest is to put that Duncan Hines frosting on that unfrosted pop tart and live your best life.
7. Nabisco Graham Crackers
Here Nabisco goes again, the original graham crackers are vegan! What better news than to stock up on your vegan marshmallows and dark chocolate. Smore’s all summer long!
8. Pillsbury crescent rolls
Pillsbury original crescent rolls contain no dairy, despite having that great buttery taste. Just a bunch of oils tricking your mind once again.
9. Ritz Crackers
Ritz crackers have an aroma that makes you want to eat the entire box. Or at least when you’re on a 10 hour car ride and you’re dying of starvation. Ritz contains, enriched flour, soybean oil, sugar, salt, corn syrup, soy lecithin, and barley flour.
10. Teddy Grahams
I grew up eating chocolate Teddy Grahams all the time. These little bears are made up of graham flour, wheat flour, sugar, canola and soybean oil, cocoa, etc. While, not all the flavors are vegan, I’m glad my favorite one is!
11. Nutter Butter
Nutter Butter’s and a lot of other peanut butter related products have been proven to be accidentally vegan. Nutter Butter’s main ingredients are unbleached enriched flour, sugar, peanut butter, soybean, peanut, and vegetable oils.
12. Nature Valley Peanut Butter Granola Bars
Nature Valley’s peanut butter granola bars are a messy S.O.B. to eat. But they’re delicious. The ingredients include whole grain, oats, sugar, canola oil, peanut butter, brown sugar, baking soda, salt, and soy lecithin.
13. Hershey's Chocolate Syrup
Hershey’s chocolate syrup is something we like to drizzle on everything. The ever classic syrup is made up of corn syrups, water, sugar, cocoa, etc. Pour over your vegan ice cream, or make some delicious chocolate almond milk. The options are endless.
14. Pringles
Pringles are a gift. Their contents include potato, wheat starch and corn and rice flours, combined with vegetable oils and salt. I wish all of their crazy flavors were vegan, but the originals stand and I’m not mad about it.
15. Girl Scout Thin Mints
And last but most certainly not least, Girl Scout’s infamous Thin Mints! Those crispy wafers covered in chocolate, yeah those are vegan! These popular cookies consist of enriched flour, sugar, vegetable oil, cocoa, sugar, cornstarch, oil of peppermint, etc. I love frozen cookies so pop those bad boys in the freezer, trust me on this!


































