The bite-sized candies in the Mike and Ike box are colorful and filled with various fruit flavors that everyone can enjoy. But never fear, Mike and Ike were reunited, with the campaign culminating in this dramatic Hollywood dram style YouTube video. They contain sugar as well as confectioner’s glaze, both of which are generally regarded as non-vegan by the ethical vegan community. The only downside may come if you don't like one of the flavors, as it's not easy to pick and choose among them. For one, it’s a natural preservative that lowers the pH of the candy, making it impossible for bacteria to feed on the sugar.

Experience the delightful sweetness of fruity chewy candy with MIKE AND IKE ® Original Fruits, bursting with five FRUCHEWY ® flavors including Cherry, Lemon, Lime, Orange and Strawberry. That mix varies from bag to bag, so everyone's experience with this flavor could well be a little different.When you munch on Starbursts, you're not only ingesting corn syrup and sugar but hydrogenated palm kernel oil, the third item on the ingredients list after all that sweet stuff.

Another point to consider is that the glaze contains shellac, which many vegans consider makes a product non vegan. To make gelatin, bones and tendons from the slaughterhouse are boiled down to make a thick, fatty broth.

Another Disney World Guest visited the Parks more recently, on February 22, and explained that the only Goofy’s Candy Company products they found were the cherry sour balls and the assorted sour gummies.

There is no gritty layer like other sour candies have, so the oval shaped candies have a clean, hard shell. However, ethical vegans (like myself) try to avoid white sugar since its production involves animal bones. Assuming you're not too picky about getting one flavor over another, there's a lot to enjoy with each serving of this Mike and Ike variety. And although overall, this candy seems not that bad, eating something that is devoid of everything isn't ideal either.The tangy, yet sweet taste of most lemon candies is undeniably delicious, so when it comes to Mike and Ikes, you'd think that would be the case too. Everyone who loves Mike and Ike's seems to love the original candy and there's good reason this candy is at the top of our ranking. Then, I’ll break down all of the ingredients and explain why certain ones are problematic for vegans.