45 Gluten-Free Name Brand Snack Recommendations

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Finding snacks and quick foods to grab can be tough when they need to be gluten-free. People don’t like to have to run to 5 different stores, either, trying to find the random, hard-to-find foods that cost five times more than any other comparable foods. What in regular stores (like Walmart) are safe to eat? Things that are not being made just to be gluten-free but are still trusted as Celiac safe?

While this list is not extensive, I hope it helps to show some foods that most stores carry and won’t be so hard to find. There are MANY that I’m sure to miss and it can depend on your area as to what your store carries so a particular item may not be in a regular store in your area. All of them have gluten-free options, BUT make sure to check the labels! Ingredients can change so they may remove the label if they are no longer gluten free. Also, some of their products may be safe while others are not so always check the one you’re interested in.

What is NOT on this list are items that are specially made to be gluten-free. Many companies will provide gluten-free snacks and market it as a gluten-free food. Brands like Snyders, Enjoy Life, Mary’s Gone Crackers, etc. have gluten-free snacks as well, but those are very well known to be gluten-free and usually in a designated area of the store. This list is for items that you may grab without knowing it is gluten-free as it is not marketed towards the gluten-free community.

For the record, I realize that these are not all healthy snacks. I’m not advising you on your health here, but rather just providing information. Please choose what’s appropriate for your family. We do not eat all of these, but have tried many of them with no reactions.

ALWAYS check the label yourself! Ingredients change, which can make their gluten-free status change. While I have done my best to only list brands that have a tested gluten-free claim that can be trusted, you are responsible for make sure the one you’re getting is truly safe for you.

Chips, Popcorn, and Dips

  • Fritos Corn Chips – some are not GF so look for the GF label
  • Beanitos chips
  • On The Border tortilla chips
  • Mission tortilla chips
  • Xochitl tortilla chips
  • Lay’s potato chips, including STAX – check for GF label on different flavors
  • Terra potato chips
  • T.G.I. Friday’s Cheddar and Bacon Potato Skin Chips
  • Skinny Pop popcorn
  • Orville Redenbacher’s popcorn – check labels on different flavors
  • Angie’s BOOMCHICKAPOP Sweet and Salty Kettle Corn
  • Pik-Nik Shoestring Potatoes
  • Cheetos – again, look for the GF label. Some are not but regular crunchy, puffs, and white cheddar natural are labeled as GF.
  • Harvest Snaps green pea snack crisps
  • Wholly Guacamole – all flavors are GF
  • Sabra hummus
  • Pirate’s Booty
  • Cape Cod Kettle Chips
  • Ruffles Original

Condiments

  • Sunbutter
  • Mt. Olive pickles
  • Nutella

Fruit Snacks, Dried Fruit, Bars

  • Larabar
  • Kind bars
  • Sun-Maid raisins
  • GoGo Squeez applesauce
  • Black Forest gummy treats
  • Fruit Roll-Ups
  • Fruit By the Foot
  • Welch’s fruit snacks
  • Mott’s fruit snacks
  • RXBAR, including RX Kids
  • Bare Snacks fruit chips
  • Nature Valley Roasted Nut Crunch
  • Nature Valley Protein bars
  • Annie’s Homegrown Fruit Snacks (I was hesitant to put these on here because we did have a reaction to these so we stopped eating them, but many seem to not so use caution with this one.)

Rice Cakes, Crackers

  • Quaker Rice Cakes
  • Blue Diamond Nut-Thins crackers
  • Nabisco Good Thins rice crackers

Dairy

  • Breyer’s Ice Cream – look for GF label as some may not be
  • Sargento cheeses – except their Breakfast Breaks, which are made in a different facility
  • Silk yogurts
  • Hidden Valley Ranch dip dry packets

Cereal*

  • Chex – all except Wheat Chex are gluten-free
  • Fruity Pebbles

Other

  • Hormel pepperoni slices
  • Campfire marshmallows

*Some cereal brands are labeled gluten-free, but because of the processing and testing are not Celiac safe. Two such examples are Cheerios and Lucky Charms. They are labeled gluten-free in the U.S., but are not Celiac safe. Here is some information about their testing to begin researching on your own: https://www.glutenfreewatchdog.org/news/updated-testing-protocol-from-general-mills-for-labeled-gluten-free-cheerios/

Last updated: November 5, 2021