Fruit & Nut bars are being modified however solely these included in Easter eggs.
Smaller Fruit & Nut bars included in Easter eggs might be secure for Coeliacs this yr (Picture: Getty)
Cadbury’s has made a serious change to Fruit & Nut bars in time for Easter.
Savvy chocolate followers this week observed that Cadbury Dairy Milk Fruit & Nut bars had undergone a recipe change, with the labels on the packaging included within the Fruit & Nut Easter eggs altered.
Posting on Reddit, a member of the r/CoeliacUK discussion board mentioned: “I emailed Cadbury the opposite day because of confusion surrounding their Fruit and Nut Easter egg – the outer packaging talked about no wheat or gluten, however the person bars inside had a ‘Could Comprise Wheat’ so I ended up not consuming them and emailing Cadbury to allow them to know concerning the discrepancy in the event that they weren’t already conscious.
“At present, acquired an e-mail confirming that ‘Following enhancements inside our manufacturing unit, we now have eliminated the potential for our Cadbury Dairy Milk Fruit and Nut bars to come back into contact with wheat.
“Subsequently we now have been working in the direction of eradicating the wheat declaration from our packaging. In the mean time the bar inclusion of some eggs nonetheless embody an outdated ‘could include wheat assertion’.”
The Specific then bought in contact with Cadbury to verify the change is in place for this Easter.
Cadbury advised us that the Fruit & Nut bars included with all Easter eggs for 2026 ‘don’t include any traces of wheat’ and are subsequently secure for individuals with a gluten allergy or Coeliac illness.
However this doesn’t apply to its bigger bars. Confusingly, Fruit & Nut bars of 95g or bigger, together with 110g, 180g, 210g and 360g are nonetheless liable to wheat contamination and can nonetheless retain the warning on their labels.
The agency mentioned this was as a result of the bigger bars are nonetheless produced on a special manufacturing unit line to these included in Easter eggs.
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A spokesperson for Cadbury mentioned in a press release: “We are able to affirm that the Fruit & Nut bars included in our Cadbury Dairy Milk Fruit & Nut Easter Eggs haven’t any traces of wheat. We have now eliminated the potential for these particular bars to come back into contact with wheat following enhancements in our manufacturing unit. We’re working in the direction of eradicating the wheat declaration from our packaging, which can imply the Fruit and Nut bars included in some Easter Eggs nonetheless embody an outdated ‘could include wheat’ assertion.”
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