Here is an amazing list of all of the "accidentally vegan" items in Coles supermarkets. I am actually really impressed by the increase of vegan products in Australian supermarkets and I really hope that there will be more and more over time!
This is a list that I will keep adding to over time. I am listing products that are vegan based on their ingredients list rather than the company itself. Some of the companies may produce non-vegan items etc... I am giving you the list and it is up to you to make your decisions. :)
This is a list that I will keep adding to over time. I am listing products that are vegan based on their ingredients list rather than the company itself. Some of the companies may produce non-vegan items etc... I am giving you the list and it is up to you to make your decisions. :)
We are all in this together so help us add to the list! Please contact me here if any of the products are no longer vegan and now contain animal-derived products, have been taken off the shelves or if you would like to add to the list! Make sure you still check the ingredients before you purchase.
Vegan "Meat" Substitutes & Tofu:
- Fry's Crumbed Schnitzel
- Fry's Vegetarian Traditional Burgers
- Fry's Country Mushroom Pies
- Fry's Vegetarian Chicken-Style Strips
- Sanitarium "Not Burgers"
- Sanitarium Lentil Patties
- Sanitarium Veggie Roast
- Sanitarium Deli Luncheon
- Sanitarium Nutmeat
- Sanitarium Nutolene
- Sanitarium Vegetarian Sausages
- Sanitarium Tender Pieces
- Sanitarium Casserole Mince
- Syndian Falafel
- Syndian Veggie Bites
- Syndian Asian Bean and Kumera
- Syndian Lentil Burgers
- Soyco Tofu - Japanese, Malaysian, Thai
- Soyco Soy Steak
- Blue Lotus Sweet chilli Tofu Nuggets
- Blue Lotus Premium Silken Tofu
- Nutrisoy Extra Firm Tofu
- Nutrisoy Tofu Spicy
- Nutrisoy Tasy Tempeh
- Simply Better Foods Organic Tofu
- Eatwell Lentil Burgers and Red Lentil Burgers
- Eatwell Veggie Burgers - Chickpea & Sunflower Seeds and Chickpea & Spinach
- Yumi's Falafel Balls
- Orgran Falafel Mix
- N.S.M Falafel Mix
Milk Substitutes & Flavouring:
- So Good Milks - Rice, Almond, Soy
- Coles - Soy
- Vitasoy - Rice, Oat
- Pure Harvest - Rice, Soy
- Australia's Own - Almond, Rice, Soy
- Nestle Carnation - Soy Creamy Cooking Milk
- Nesquik - Chocolate, Strawberry
Pastry and Frozen Savoury Goods:
- Coles Oriental Vegetable Platter
- Ho Mai Spring Rolls
- Coles Puff Pastry
- Pampas Shortcrust Pastry
- Orgran Pastry Mix - Puff, Shortcrust, Shortbread
- Nevana Fresh Pizza Bases
Misc. Savoury:
- Pitago Organic Soup - pumpkin & ginger, tomato & thume and minestrone.
- Campbells Ladle Farmhouse Vegetable Canned Soup
- Heinz Canned Soups - Very Special Homestyle Veg and Barley, Spicy Lentil
- SPC Rich Tomato Baked Beans
- Heinz - Baked Beans in Rich Tomato
- Coles Organic Canned Spaghetti
- Dolmio Sauces: Basil, Extra Garlic, TOmato Onion and Roast Garlic, Farmhouse Vegetables, Extra Garden Vegetables
- Raguletto Pasta Sauces: Bolognese, Venetian Onion Herbs and Spices
- Celebrate Health - Lentils Mediterranean, Quinoa Moroccan, Lentils Moroccon, Organic Vegetable Stock
- Maggi 2 minute Noodles - oriental flavour only
- Massel Stockcubes - Chicken, Beef, Vegetable
- Orgran Egg Replacer
- Spiral Foods Organic Instant Miso Soup
Dips, Sauces and Spreads:
- Toffuti Better than Cream Cheese
- Kingland Cream Cheese
- Copha Vegetable Shortening
- Nuttelex spreads: original, lite, olive and olive lite
- Pureland organic Hommus
- Coles Sweet Potato Dukkah
- Coles Caramelised Onion Hommus
- Coles Olive Hommus
- Yumi's Basil and Pinenut
- Yumi's Harissa
- Yumi's Spicy Pumpkin Dip
- Yumi's Creamed Beetroot Dip
- Black Swan Hommus with Garlic Olive Oil
- Black Swan Hommus
- Black Swan White Hommus
- Wattle Valley Roasted Pumpking & Basil
- Kraft Peanut Butter
- Kraft Vegetmite
- Scooby Doo Sweet William Chocolate Spread
- Praise 99% Fat-Free Mayonnaise
Savoury Snack Items:
- Vege Chips Range
- Smiths Original Chips
- Kettle Original Chips
- Doritos Original Corn Chips
- Sunrise Gluten Free Rice Crackers
- Arnots Barbeque Shapes
- Arnotts Original Jatz
- Vitaweats Original
Savoury Breads:
- Golden Crumpets
- Tip Top Original English Muffins
- Homestyle Bake Herb, Garlic and Parsley Focaccia
- Byblos Original White Pita Bread
Cereal:
- Sanitarium Light n Tasty Berry with Oat Clusters
- Sanitarium Weet-Bix
- Uncle Toby's Plus Fibre Apples and Sultanas
- Cheerios 4 Wholegrains
- Kellogs Rice Bubbles
- Kellogs Nutri-Grain
Cold/Frozen Aisle Sweet Things:
- Sanitarium So Good Ice Creams - Chocolate, Vanilla
- Weis Sorbets - Lemon, Pineapple & Tahitian Lime, Summer Betties, Passion Orange and Australian Mango
- Peters Frosty Fruits Icypoles - Tropical flavour only
- Calippo Icepoles
- Kingland Mango and Peach Yoghurt
- Kingland Variety Yoghurt Pack
- Nanna's Mini Lite Apple Pies
Toppings & Sauces:
- Cottees Toppings - Chocolate, Strawberry
- Cole's Strawberry Topping
Biscuits & Bars:
- Leda Fruit Filled Bars - Triple Berry, Apple, Strawberry
- Leda Chocolate Rum Balls
- Leda Gingernut cookies
- Leda Minton Biscuits
- Leda Choculence
- Leda Dunkies Biscuits
- Leda Choc Chip Cookies
- Leda Golden Crunch
- Orgran Itsy Bitsy Bears Biscuits
- Kids Outback Animals Biscuits
- McVities Original Digestives
- Golden Days Original Sesame Snaps
- Arnott's Nice Busicuits
- Arnott's Choc Ripple Biscuits
- Arnott's Lemon Crisp Biscuits
- Oreos - Classic, Strawberry and Chocolate
Misc. Sweet Goods:
- Coles Ready To Eat Caramel Popcorn
- Movietime Multi-Coloured Popcorn
- Mrs May's Dry Snacks - Pumpkin Crunch, Cranberry Crunch
- Coles Icecream Cones
- Altimate Waffle Cones'
- Freedom Foods Pancake Mix
Lollies Aisle:
- Eskal Noble Choice Dairy Free Dark Mint Chocolate
- Lindt Chocolate Blocks- 70% Cocoa and 85% Cocoa Dark Chocolate
- Sweet William Chocolate Range
- Hubba Bubba Bubblegum
- Green & Black 70% Dark Chocolate Block
- Skittles
- X-Treme Sour Straps
- Lifesavers
Hi,
ReplyDeleteJust saw your Facebook post and thought that i woulld add the following the rthe list:
- X-Treme sour straps, lifesavers, wrigleys chewing gum, hubba bubba gum,
- Gelative Sorbets
- Kettle Original Chips
- Nanna's Mini Light Apple pies
Hello! Thanks so much for your fast contribution :) Will add the now!
DeleteHi Madison
Deleteso i was in coles today and i saw...
Coles Organic Popcorn
Cool 10 pk Popcorn
Yumi's kalamata olive dip
Yumi's Sweet potato & cashews dip
Coles split Green Olives with chilli & garlic
..awesome list Madison ..ill let you knw of any future findings!!
Thanks so much Kara! I will add them now :D
DeleteThe Yumi's Sweet Potato and Cashew one has eggs in it :(
Delete"AVAILABLE IN: 200g & 2kg
INGREDIENTS: Sweet Potato (45%), Roasted Cashews (15%), Vegetable Oil, Vinegar, Water, Fresh Coriander, Eggs, Brown Sugar, Garlic, Salt, Spices, Preservatives (202, 211).
MAY CONTAIN TRACES OF FISH and SESAME SEEDS."
Oh and so does the Kalamata Olive one:
Delete"INGREDIENTS: Kalamata Olives (30%0, Green Olive, Vegetable Oil, Eggs, Vinegar, Sugar, Salt, Spices, Acidity Regultor (330)."
However, there are heaps that are vegan! As listed in the above list. It is great that there are so many vegan types from that brand :)
Maddi,
ReplyDeleteI just emailed you but I thought of another couple of sweet additions; Arnott's lemon crisp biccies, weis fruit sorbet, some of the aeroplane jellies!
And I am pretty sure that the strawberry oreos that you listed may not be vegan? i will check next time I am there.
Thank you again for you great list. I will keep emailing you any from woolies and coles that I think of.
Hello Emily,
DeleteA big thank you to you for all of your emails and FB messages! It has really helped the list. I haven't added everything from your emails but I will do so in the morning. It is 10:58pm here and my eyes are way too sore from looking at the computer screen to continue typing. Will add them all in the morning. Feel free to keep adding to the list. Thanks again :)
My wife has a big vegan list for aldi, woolworths and coles. She is happy to send you them all so that you can add them to your lists. I will email you the attachment. It is a pdf doc. thanks!
ReplyDeleteWe just wanted to add the sakata range, vitawheats, many of the soft drinks. There is also heaps of vegan breads and wraps. We will send you the doc. Thanks
I would love this list!!
DeleteI would love this list!!
DeleteHi Jack! Thanks so much. I would love you to send us the list :) We are all in this together and it would be amazing to have heaps of people contribute to the list :)
DeleteOh wow, is Nesquik vegan there? It wasn't over here last time I checked, but I'm definitely going to keep an eye on it. We're also avoiding palm oil at the moment because of all the issues with that, so a lot of our favourite vegan products are out now :(
ReplyDeleteHi Natasha! I didn't see palm oil in the ingredients but please tell me if I need to take anything off of the list! :) Thanks! Oh, and feel free to add to it too
DeleteWe don't get most of these products in South Africa, but Fry's is from here. There's palm oil in the puff pastry for their pies. The ingredients only say vegetable oil, but I asked them and it's palm oil. I loved those pies :(
DeleteThe Oreos here also have palm oil, I don't know if they're the same all over. Ours used to have milk in and now they're vegan, but we still can't eat them.
There's some new vegan companies that are going to have their food available in our area soon, so I'm very excited.
I will check them out. I didn't see palm oil in our oreos last time I checked but I will look again soon!! :)
DeleteSeems like products are different in each country! How strange.
Thanks for the info!
Maggi 2 minute noodles (and other noodle brands like Fantastic, Trident, Mi Goreng) flavour sachets contain E631, an additive derived from animal products. So they are not vegan. I recommend buying a pack of plain noodles (Fantastic brand sell a big bulk packet with no flavour sachets)and cooking them with some Massel veggie stock instead.
ReplyDeleteThanks! Will take them off now :)
DeleteHowdy Madison thank you for your list. It really helps us when we are grocery shopping. I have always used your woolworths list but i am so happy that you have done a coles one. are you going to do an aldi one too? I would really like an aldi one!
ReplyDeletejust wanted to say that the sanitarium snitzels now contain egg white :( also, you could add to the list: arnotts choc ripple biscuits and praise lite dijonaise
thanks again for everything you and jerome do
Hello! I have just removed the Sanitarium Tender Schnitzels and have added you other ones! Thanks so much for the contribution. Please keep adding hehe :)
DeleteOh and yes we are working on the Aldi list right now! :)
DeleteHi there!
ReplyDeleteThis is so amazingly helpful. I just want to say you are all my heros. Nice, nice job people.
Hi Karen! Thanks for your comment :)
DeleteThe last time I looked at the ingredients of Strawberry Nesquik it had colour 120 in it. Have they changed the 'recipe'? That would be great it they have. I know the Banana flavour IS vegan too.
ReplyDeleteThanks for putting this list together. There are many, many savoury items I wasn't aware were vegan on here.
Hello Nina! I will check when I go to the grocery store next. These are the ingredients of the chocolate nesquik:
DeleteINGREDIENTS:
SUGAR, COCOA PROCESSED WITH ALKALI, SOY LECITHIN, CARRAGEENAN, SALT, ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, SPICE. VITAMINS AND MINERALS: CALCIUM CARBONATE, ASCORBIC ACID (VITAMIN C), ZINC OXIDE, PYRIDOXINE HYDROCHLORIDE (VITAMIN B6), COPPER GLUCONATE, MANGANESE
To me it looks vegan? But I will double check in the store too! :) Thanks so much. Please feel free to keep adding and removing to the list!
Hi Madison, thanks so much for putting this list together. There are loads of savoury items on this list I was unaware of.
ReplyDeleteThe last time I checked the Strawberry Nesquik it had colour 120 in it. Seems as though I should check it again. :) Oh, the Banana flavour is vegan too.
Hello Nina! I will check when I go to the grocery store next. These are the ingredients of the chocolate nesquik:
DeleteINGREDIENTS:
SUGAR, COCOA PROCESSED WITH ALKALI, SOY LECITHIN, CARRAGEENAN, SALT, ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, SPICE. VITAMINS AND MINERALS: CALCIUM CARBONATE, ASCORBIC ACID (VITAMIN C), ZINC OXIDE, PYRIDOXINE HYDROCHLORIDE (VITAMIN B6), COPPER GLUCONATE, MANGANESE
To me it looks vegan? But I will double check in the store too! :) Thanks so much. Please feel free to keep adding and removing to the list!
Great list thank you :) I think i must be confused as to the tiny teddies, the only chocolate ones i found from Arnotts had honey in them so not vegan.. so close though.. did i confuse it with another brand?
ReplyDeleteHello! Last time I checked they were vegan... but the caramel and chocolate chip were not. I will check them at the shops next time I am there :)
DeleteHi Madison! Ive only just stumbled on your website & I love it so so much! :D
ReplyDeleteAlso, thank you for that great Coles list, there are certainly a lot of products on there that I just "assumed" weren't vegan.
What a great job you are doing, thanks again...& I look forward to spending many more hours trawling through the sight.
CHeers! xxx
Hello Leanne! Oh I am so glad that you like Veggieful :) I hope you find some yummy recipes to make and that the information is useful to you! Thanks for the comment :D
DeleteIt's always handy to have lists like these, but at first glance there are a couple of clarifications that should probably be made. Kellogg's coco pops are no longer vegan, as they contain lanolin-based vitamin D, and I'm fairly certain that their whole range is questionable considering a search for 'vegan' products on their website turns up zero results!
ReplyDeleteAlso, with the frosty fruits you should probably make it clear that only the tropical ones (not sure of their actual name) are vegan, as the watermelon and lemon, lime and bitters ones both contain 120 :(
Hope this helps! :)
Oh it really helps! Thanks so much for your contribution. It is comments like yours that help our list become more accurate! :) Thanks a lot!
DeleteJust took them off the list after searching the ingredients online. Thanks again!!!
DeleteHi Madison,
ReplyDeleteFantastic blog you have here! I stumbled across it one day and have been hooked since! : )
Just thought I should mention Yumi's eggplant dips have egg in them. Surprising and kind of unnecessary, I believe! Not 100% sure about the eggplant & zaatar as I haven't actually seen that one before, but the Mediterranean definitely does.
Hope you find this helpful : )
Hi Kate!
DeleteThanks so much for your kind words and for your contribution.
I will take it off right now! Thanks :D
The La Zuppa soup range at Coles has some vegan soups: Tuscan Vegetable, Spinach & Chickpea, Minestrone, Moroccan Pumpkin & Chickpea, and Pumpkin. They used to have a lentil one too but they don't seem to make that any more.
ReplyDeleteSome of their soups are at Woolworths too - I've seen the Moroccan Pumpkin & Chickpea one there.
Hello! Thanks for your additions. Will add them soon :)
DeleteThis must have been exhausting to put together, but is very much appreciated! :)
ReplyDeleteMy pleasure :) It is a contribution from many people :D
DeleteHello (:
ReplyDeleteI don't know if you know but unfortunately Mentos aren't vegan..
Somebody emailed the company and they said:
"Some Mentos products contain a small amount of bees wax. Therefore we advise that our Mentos products are suitable for vegetarians, however they are not suitable for vegans. "
:(
Chelsey
Hi Chelsey,
DeleteThanks for the comment and contribution. I will remove Mentos now!