Is Fun Dip Gluten-free?

Find out if Fun Dip candy is gluten-free, dairy-free, and vegan and how this candy fits into each of these diets.

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If you loved Fun Dip as a kid or love it now, you may be wondering how this treat fits into a gluten-free diet. I remember enjoying this treat as a kid, and my son’s enjoyment of it now is equally fun to watch. 

Although he tends to be more perplexed by the idea of dipping and eating sugar straight out of a package, which makes me laugh to see. I hope that means I’m doing something right as a parent, although I’m not entirely sure what that is.

Fun Dip is a candy that’s all about the experience. In each package, you get two “Lix-a-Stix” and two pouches of flavored sugar. The idea is to dip the sticks into the sugar and lick it off. 

The candy itself is made up of two main components: the sticks and the flavored sugar. In this post, we’re going to talk about this candy and what we know about how it fits into a gluten-free diet.

We’ll talk about what the ingredients are in Fun Dip and find out what we know about it being gluten-free. We’ll also talk about if this candy is dairy-free and vegan.

If you love Fun Dip and follow a gluten-free diet, you’ll want to keep reading!

Ingredients of Fun Dip

Though I wasn’t able to find an ingredients list for the sticks in Fun Dip, also known as Lik-a-Stix, I was able to find ingredients for the sugar dip that comes with Fun Dip.

Cherry Ingredients: Dextrose, Maltodextrin, And Less Than 2% Of Citric Acid, Calcium Stearate, Natural Flavors, Red 40 Lake.

Razzapple Ingredients: Dextrose, Maltodextrin, And Less Than 2% Of Citric Acid, Calcium Stearate, Natural Flavors, Blue 1, Blue 1 Lake, Yellow 5.

What is gluten?

Gluten is a protein found in most wheat products, and acts as the “glue” that helps to hold wheat, barley, kamut, spelt, farro, durum, bulgur, rye, and semolina together to maintain their shape. 

Gluten is naturally occurring, and therefore is impossible to strip away from the grain. If a grain naturally has gluten in it, there’s no way to make that food gluten-free.

Gluten can be found in candy as one of the main ingredients, especially in gummy candies, as wheat flour or wheat starch. You can also find it in flavorings, thickeners, or binders.

Is Fun Dip gluten-free?

The powdery sugar dip in Fun Dip doesn’t contain any gluten ingredients, however there is no information online or on the packages of the Lix-a-Stix in Fun Dip. Without knowing what is in the sticks, we can’t say for certain that this is a gluten-free candy.

If you follow a gluten-free diet, I’d avoid this treat and opt for something that you know is gluten-free instead.

Is Fun Dip dairy-free?

Fun Dip’s sugar dip doesn’t contain any dairy ingredients and is safe for a dairy-free diet. The packaging on Fun Dip doesn’t show any ingredients for the Lik-a-Stix, meaning we can’t know for certain if this candy is dairy-free.

Is Fun Dip vegan?

The sugar powder used to dip in Fun Dip is vegan, however without an ingredients list for the Lik-a-Stix, we can’t know for sure if this part of the candy is also vegan. 

If you enjoy Fun Dip, or are hoping to give it to a kid in your life who is following a gluten-free diet, I hope this post has given you some information to make a decision that works for you. The powder in Fun Dip is gluten-free, but the ingredients in the sticks are seemingly a mystery in the online world. 

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