Do Kit Kats Have Peanuts? Click Here!
If you ended up here, I am sure you want to know if Are there peanuts in Kit Kats?
The raw materials for making Qiqiao chocolate bars are different, depending on how you buy them from all over the world.
We’ll carefully examine the Kit Kat bar’s ingredients to see if nuts are present.
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KIT KAT Ingredients
Depending on where in the world you buy it, different ingredients are used to make a Kit Kat bar.
The ingredients from Europe, the United States, and Canada will be highlighted.
Europe
Milk chocolate (66%) contains sugar, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, dried whole milk, lactose and whey proteins, whey powder, emulsifier (sunflower lecithin), butterfat, and flavorings. Wheat flour also contains sugar, vegetable fat, yeast, raising agent (sodium bicarbonate), salt, and flavorings.
United States
Sugar, wheat flour, cocoa butter, nonfat milk, chocolate, refined palm kernel oil, lactose (milk fat), yeast, artificial flavor, salt, and sodium bicarbonate are all ingredients in Hershey’s Kit Kat Crisp Wafers in Chocolate.
Canada
Wheat flour, sugar, modified palm oil, cocoa, sodium bicarbonate, soy lecithin, yeast, and milk chocolate (sugar, milk ingredients, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, whey powder, lactose, soya lecithin, polyglycerol polyricinoleate, natural flavor).
As you can see, the ingredients in a Kit Kat chocolate bar do not contain any nuts or peanuts.
Please Note: If you look on the packaging, you will see a warning on the label, which states:
Warning: May contain nuts and peanuts.
What does it mean that the Kit Kat Bar doesn’t contain any nuts? Below, we look more closely at it.
Do Kit Kat Chocolate Contain Nuts/Peanuts?
In Canada, tree nuts and peanuts are priority allergens, which means that Canadian labeling regulations require them to be declared in the ingredient list (if it’s part of the product) or under a “May Contain” statement (if there is a chance for cross-contamination) on the label. The product doesn’t contain nuts if they’re not listed.
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Are Kit Kat Bars Vegetarian?
According to their ingredient list, they are vegetarian but not vegan.
They contain milk but no gelatin.
Ingredients…
Chocolate [1 oz] Sugar, wheat flour, cocoa butter, nonfat milk,chocolate, refined palm kernel oil, lactose (milk),milk fat, contains 2% or less of: soy lecithin, PGPR (emulsifier), yeast, artificial flavor, salt, and sodium bicarbonate.
(Polyglycerol polyricinoleate (PGPR), E476, is an emulsifier made from glycerol and fatty acids In chocolate, compound chocolate and similar coatings)
HOWEVER Because of the widespread deforestation of the rain forest by growers, I won’t buy anything that contains palm oil, and I won’t buy anything made by Nestlé because they are fools. Verify the actions that company has taken. It is appalling.
Wrapping It Up
We’ve reached the end and as you can see, the answer to “Do Kit Kats Have Peanuts” is no. Nuts or peanuts are not listed among the ingredients in a Kit Kat chocolate bar.
However, there is a warning label that states “Nuts and peanuts may be present.” The product may have been contaminated with nuts during manufacturing, according to this.
I sincerely hope you found this article to be useful.
Are you highly allergic to nuts? What candy bars do you stay away from due to allergen warnings? Comment below and let me know.
