Are Nutter Butters Vegan? (All Biscuits Analyzed)

• Unbleached Enriched Flour (Wheat Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate {Vitamin B1}, Riboflavin {Vitamin B2}, Folic Acid),
• Sugar, Peanut Butter (Peanuts, Corn Syrup Solids, Hydrogenated Rapeseed And/Or Cottonseed And/Or Soybean Oils, Salt, Peanut Oil), Canola Oil, Whole Grain Wheat Flour,
• Palm Oil, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Salt, Leavening (Baking Soda, Calcium Phosphate), Cornstarch, Soy Lecithin,
• Artificial Flavor [1]

Before we look at some of the other Nutter Butter products, let’s first examine the ingredients we highlighted in bold. Why are these plant-based ingredients problematic for someone following the vegan lifestyle?

The reason why many vegans will avoid sugar on an ingredient label isn’t just for health reasons.

Some sugar is bleached with bone char to get that pure white color, and while you’ll be glad to hear there isn’t any actual bone in the product, the processing still makes it non-vegan.

Ingredients labels don’t currently require that a company tells you whether the sugar in their product is the bone char using kind or not, which means the ingredient is a question mark.

While artificial colors and flavors are made in a lab with no animal products needed, they are still not vegan. Synthetic dyes and flavors have to be routinely tested on animals.

Due to the possible harmful effects of these synthetic ingredients, they are always going through testing.

This means that animals are tortured and killed for every label you see them on. Not just rats and mice either, cats and dogs too.

Natural flavorings can be plant-based, but they are also sometimes sourced from animal products. Like sugar, there is no clear way to tell when you find them on an ingredients list, and it’s usually best to avoid them altogether.

No, Nutter Butter Bites are not vegan. While the ingredients are all plant-based, the cross-contamination with milk in the factory and problematic ingredients like palm oil and artificial flavors would have most vegans avoid the product.

No, Fudge Covered Nutter Butters are not vegan. They contain nonfat milk and other problematic ingredients such as palm, sugar, and artificial flavors.

• Sugar, Unbleached Enriched Flour (Wheat Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate {Vitamin B1}, Riboflavin {Vitamin B2}, Folic Acid), Peanut Butter (Peanuts, Corn Syrup Solids, Hydrogenated Rapeseed And/Or Cottonseed And/Or Soybean Oils, Salt, Peanut Oil),
• Palm Kernel Oil, Palm Oil, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Whole Grain Wheat Flour, Cocoa (Processed With Alkali),
• Nonfat Milk, Cocoa, Salt, Soy Lecithin, Cornstarch, Leavening (Baking Soda, Calcium Phosphate),
• Artificial Flavor, Natural Flavor [3]

• Unbleached Enriched Flour (Wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate {Vitamin B1}, Riboflavin {Vitamin B2}, Folic Acid), Peanut Butter (Peanuts, Hydrogenated Rapeseed And/Or Cottonseed And/Or Soybean Oils, Salt, Peanut Oil),
• Sugar, Palm Oil, Dextrose, Cornstarch, Salt, Soy Lecithin, Baking Soda [4]

Is Nutter Butter Cereal Vegan?

• Sugar, Corn Flour, Peanut Butter (Peanuts, Dextrose, Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil (Cottonseed, Soybean, Canola), Salt), Dextrose, Whole Grain Oat Flour, Canola Oil, Salt, Calcium Carbonate,
• Natural and Artificial Flavor, Red 40, Yellow 5, Blue 1, Yellow 6, BHT Added To Preserve Freshness.[5]

Unfortunately, if you do your research and pay attention to the ingredients, Nutter Butters aren’t vegan.

It’s not all bad news, though, because it’s relatively simple to make your own homemade vegan nutter butter cookies.

By making your own, you can use whole food ingredients and avoid all the problematic processed foods found in the classic Nabisco biscuit. You can suit them to your own needs like making them sugar and gluten-free too.

Do you have your own Nutter Butter recipe to share? What’s your favorite replacement? Let us know in the comments below.