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Coconut mushrooms
A sweet shaped like a little mushroom and rolled in desiccated coconut, the coconut mushroom contains no mushroom at all. Here is what goes into one, and the diet and allergy points worth knowing.
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Coconut mushrooms are small sweets shaped like mushrooms and coated in desiccated coconut. The name is all about the shape: there is no mushroom in them.
What is in them
Coconut Mushroom, as recorded by Open Food Facts in December 2025. Sugar, glucose syrup, desiccated coconut (24 per cent), maize starch, gelatine, palm oil, fat reduced cocoa powder, plain caramel as a colour, and flavouring. The pack also carries a German description, calling it a coated sweet in the shape of a mushroom.
How the recipe works
- The body. Sugar, glucose syrup and maize starch make up the body of the sweet, set with gelatine: see gelatine in sweets explained
- The coat. Desiccated coconut, nearly a quarter of the sweet, coats the outside.
- The colour. Fat reduced cocoa powder and plain caramel, a colour made by heating sugar, add colour and flavour.
- The fat. Palm oil: see palm oil in sweets
For another coconut sweet, the pink and white slab made with desiccated coconut, see coconut ice
Diet and allergy points
- Gelatine. The recipe here contains gelatine, so it is not suitable for vegetarians or vegans, and the record does not say which animal it comes from.
- Coconut. Coconut is not one of the tree nuts named in the UK's list of 14 allergens, which covers almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts, cashews, pecans, Brazil nuts, pistachios and macadamias. So coconut will not be emphasised on a label the way those nuts are, and anyone who reacts to it needs to read the full ingredients list: see the 14 allergens explained for sweets
- Check the pack. A single record is a snapshot; recipes change: see how to read a sweet label
In our pick and mix
We do not sell coconut mushrooms. Each sweet we do sell has a card that opens up to show its full ingredients and allergens.
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Questions and answers
What are coconut mushrooms made of?
One recipe recorded on Open Food Facts: sugar, glucose syrup, desiccated coconut (24 per cent), maize starch, gelatine, palm oil, fat reduced cocoa powder, plain caramel as a colour, and flavouring.
Are coconut mushrooms vegetarian?
Not the recipe here, which contains gelatine. It does not say which animal the gelatine comes from.
Is coconut a nut allergen?
Coconut is not one of the tree nuts named in the UK's list of 14 allergens, so it does not have to be emphasised on labels the way almonds or hazelnuts do. Anyone who reacts to coconut should read the full ingredients list.
Is there any mushroom in coconut mushrooms?
No. The name is only about the shape.
Sources
- Coconut mushroom, product record, updated December 2025, Open Food Facts
- Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011, Annex II, legislation.gov.uk
- Coconut, Wikipedia
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