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Tastiest Trick-or-Treat Candies (We Swear Your Kids Will Love Them)

This Halloween, spare the costumed kids at your door from frightfully artificial and chemically composed sweets. Hand out Sprig-tested organic and all-natural goodies instead.

by Jasmin Malik Chua
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Natural and Organic Halloween Candy

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It's the most frightful night of the year. Ghouls and goblins, pirates and princesses, mischief makers galore will be haunting your doorstep in pursuit of sweet, delectable offerings. But if high-fructose corn syrup, artificial preservatives and other spooky chemical additives make your skin crawl, here's a grab bag of organic and all-natural treats that will appease the most ravenous fiend, no tricks necessary.

Clif Kids Spooky S'mores
1. Clif Kids Spooky S'mores

Clif Kids reinvents the campfire classic into a healthful energy bar that's low fat and chockfull of whole-grain oats, fiber and 12 essential vitamins and minerals. Free of hydrogenated oils, artificial flavors and colors, high fructose corn syrup and preservatives, this limited-edition kids' 130-calorie energy bar bursts with flavor from certified-organic ingredients such as figs, honey, chocolate chips, cocoa butter and flaxseed, which should satisfy the sweetest of sweet tooths without morphing into a nutritional nightmare.


Divine Fair Trade Gold Coins
2. Divine Fair Trade Gold Coins

Little plunderers will delight in peeling away the gold and copper foil to reveal the delicious milk chocolate that lies sandwiched between. These chocolate coins are made with fair-trade-certified ingredients, including cocoa grown at a farmer's cooperative in Ghana, as well as all-natural cocoa butter, real vanilla and GMO-free soy lecithin.

Equal Exchange Organic Dark Chocolate Minis
3. Equal Exchange Organic Dark Chocolate Minis

Made with organic- and fair-trade-certified ingredients, including cocoa liquor, raw cane sugar, cocoa butter and ground vanilla, these bite-size minis are so addictive, you won't be able to stop yourself from tucking a few away for your own nocturnal noshing. Bonus: They're vegan-friendly and gluten-free, too.

YummyEarth Organic Lollipops
4. YummyEarth Organic Lollipops

Created by two dads who got the heebie-jeebies just thinking about what lurked in their kids' candy, YummyEarth's vegan-friendly, 100% natural lollipops are handcrafted using fruit extracts and vegetable-based colors, in fun flavors like Wet-Face Watermelon, Too Berry Blueberry, Googly Grape and Strawberry Smash. Besides being dairy-, gluten- and wheat-free, these lollies also come stamped with the certified-organic seal of approval, which means no pesticides or synthetic fertilizers were used to grow any of the ingredients.

Pure Fun Fruit Pinwheels
5. Pure Fun Fruit Pinwheels

Real fruit juice forms the foundation of these brightly colored pinwheel candies, which pack a powerful punch of fruity flavor in varieties such as Loony Lemon, Tangy Tangerine, Pure Pomegranate and Raging Raspberry. Because these sweets are certified organic, you won't find any artificial dyes, pesticides, GMOs or other yucky chemicals. Other candy classics available from Pure Fun: root beer barrels, fruit rocks, jaw boulders and chocolates that melt in your mouth.