WHAT'S IN REESE'S PLANT BASED?
REESE’S PLANT BASED
RAPID REVIEW
Information updated October 2023
Hershey has a Reese’s Plant Based version of their iconic Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. Here’s a snapshot of the ingredient list for new Plant Based Reese’s — below right vs. the ingredients for Original Reese’s - below left:
CHOCOLATE COMPONENT IN PLANT BASED REESE’S NOT TRANSPARENT: Shown below, in the ingredient list on the Plant Based Reese’s package, Hershey does not identify what’s inside the ‘Chocolate’ component. However, for Original Reese’s, Hershey does identify the individual ingredients of the chocolate component. Ironically — in doing so — the Plant Based Reese’s package ingredients do not reveal the actual source of the Plant-Based replacement for the Skim Milk and Milk Fat found in Original Reese’s.
PGPR: The Chocolate component in Original Reese’s contains a Not In Kitchen commercial ingredient >> Polyglycerol Polyricinoleate (a.k.a. PGPR) so it makes one wonder if there is also PGPR in the Chocolate component in the Plant Based Reese’s.
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