It’s odd that we can fly men to the moon. But try to find some vegan biscuits in supermarkets without palm oil, and it’s almost impossible. Thankfully, there are a few brands that have come onto the market in recent years. Nice to munch with tea, or use as a base for vegan cheesecake.
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- The Beginnings is a Latvian brand that makes healthy cookies. Flavours include caramel oat, almond pecan, blackcurrant, almond orange and coconut ginger. This company also makes healthy flapjacks.
- Snacks & More offers oat cinnamon, coconut vanilla and cocoa tahini biscuits, along with range of biscuits for children in fun animal shapes.
- Mr Organic makes biscuits in three flavours: chocolate chip, chocolate orange and double chocolate.
- Rhythm 108 is a Swiss brand that offers coconut crunch, almond biscotti and lemon ginger chia biscuits, along with softer hazelnut chocolate praline and chocolate peanut butter.
Sweet F.A Gluten-Free (situated on the beautiful Isle of Mull) is a small artisan company that has branched off from a local organic biscuit company, which does not use palm oil. The chief baker is gluten-free, so has created a small range of biscuits named after her initials.
Choose from:
- Oat and Raisin combine chunky heart-healthy oats with plump sweet raisins, and a sprinkling of warming cinnamon.
- Cranberry Orange are fruity New-England inspired biscuits, with chewy berries and sweetened with orange.
- Peanut Butter use a special blend of gluten-free flours and generous proportions of delicious ingredients, for anyone to enjoy.
- Double Choc Chip offers an organic vegan and palm-oil-free version of many people’s favourite biscuit flavour.
The building is run on green energy and the ovens are heated with wood from local Isle of Mull supplies (which gives good baking results as well as being eco-friendly).
Why Avoid Palm Oil in Biscuits?
If you’re vegan or have allergies, you’ll know that nearly all brand-name vegan biscuits contain ‘sustainable palm oil’. The sad fact is there is no such thing. This is just a self-policed term by industry (that Greenpeace says is ‘as useful as a chocolate teapot’) for a cheap oil that is flown thousands of miles to put into foods to save money, over using more expensive and better oils.
Meanwhile, while palm-oil-food businesses and supermarkets talk, our closest cousins are in danger of going extinct, with their forest homes torn down, in order to build cheap fast-growing palm tree plantations.
Unless baking your own biscuits, choose brands like this one that don’t use palm oil. They cost a little more, but they taste nicer, have better ethics – just eat less of them (!)
