Popular Snack Foods That Don't Have Palm Oil

• If you are allergic to palm oil or just trying to avoid it for personal reasons, finding snacks that do not contain palm oil could prevent a quick trip to the doctor. Fortunately, there are many snacking options in the marketplace that do not have palm oil as one of the active ingredients. However, some products list palm oil as vegetable oil, and the only way to discern whether palm oil is active in the product is to look at the saturated fat content. High saturated fat indicates palm oil inclusion.

Cadbury Crunchie Bar

• Cadbury Crunchie bar is a chocolate bar blended with honeycomb that provides a crunchy taste. The ingredients include sugar, milk solids, wheat glucose syrup, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, mineral salts (500, 509), emulsifiers (soya lecithin, 476) and flavors.

PowerBar Harvest Bar

• The PowerBar Harvest bar is a popular snack food that doubles as a healthy athletic supplement. It contains whole oats, 10 g of protein, and 5 g of fiber as well as numerous vitamins and minerals. Harvest bar flavors include: double chocolate crisp, oatmeal raisin, peanut butter chocolate chip, strawberry crunch, apple cinnamon crisp and toffee chocolate chip.

  The ingredients include: whole oats, brown rice syrup, soy crisps (soy protein isolate, rice flour, barley malt, salt), evaporated cane juice syrup, chocolatey coating (sugar, fractionated kernel oil, cocoa, whey, nonfat milk, soy lecithin, natural vanilla flavor), honey, alkalized cocoa, rice crisps (milled rice, sugar, salt, barley malt), inulin (from chicory), chocolate, soy protein isolate, and less than 2% of chocolate chips (sugar, chocolate, milkfat, soy lecithin, natural vanilla flavor), almond butter, peanut butter, nonfat milk, vegetable glycerin, natural flavors, minerals: calcium phosphate, potassium phosphate, ferrous fumarate (iron), vitamins: ascorbic acid, vitamin b6 hydrochloride, riboflavin (vitamin b2) and thiamine hydrochloride (vitamin b1).

Whittakers Almond Gold Bar

• Whittakers Chocolate was founded in 1896, and is a member of "Fair Trade," which ensures that both the harvesting workers and harvest are held to the highest standards. The almond gold bar contains roasted almonds and chocolate.

  The ingredients include: milk chocolate (contains sugar; cocoa solids (cocoa mass and cocoa butter) (33%); milk powder (30%); an emulsifier (soya lecithin); flavor; and roasted almonds (27%).