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White mice look like little white chocolates. The recipes in three UK listings tell a different story. Here is what goes into them, and the allergy points worth knowing.
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White mice are small, mouse shaped sweets flavoured like white chocolate. In the three UK listings here, though, they are not chocolate at all: they are a white chocolate flavour candy made with palm fat.
What is in them
White Mice, as listed by Sweets and Candy. Sugar, palm fat, whey powder from cows' milk, wheat flour with added calcium, iron, niacin and thiamin, soya and rapeseed lecithins as emulsifiers, and natural flavourings. The retailer describes them as white chocolate flavour candy and lists them as suitable for vegetarians.
Hannah's White Mice, as recorded by Open Food Facts. Sugar, palm fat, whey powder from milk, wheat flour with added calcium, iron, niacin and thiamin, rapeseed lecithin, and natural flavourings.
White Mice, 140 g, as recorded by Open Food Facts in September 2026. The same ingredients, with rapeseed lecithin as the only emulsifier.
Why they are not white chocolate
In England, the Cocoa and Chocolate Products Regulations 2003 reserve the name white chocolate for products with at least 20 per cent cocoa butter and 14 per cent dry milk solids. None of these recipes lists cocoa butter or any other cocoa ingredient: the fat is palm. So they are white chocolate flavour, which is how Sweets and Candy describes them: see how is chocolate made?
The same kind of candy is used for pink and white mice, which add carmine for the pink: see pink and white mice
Why there is flour
The wheat flour carries added calcium, iron, niacin and thiamin because, in England and Scotland, the Bread and Flour Regulations 1998 require those nutrients in most wheat flour other than wholemeal. It is nothing special about the sweets: see pink and white mice
Allergy points
- Milk. All three recipes contain whey powder from milk, so they are not suitable for anyone with a milk allergy or for vegans: see milk in sweets
- Wheat. All three contain wheat flour, so they are not gluten free: see wheat in sweets
- Soya. The Sweets and Candy recipe contains soya lecithin, while the two Open Food Facts records list rapeseed lecithin instead. That small difference matters to anyone with a soya allergy, so read the label every time: see soya in sweets and how to read a sweet label
- Nuts. Sweets and Candy says its sweets are packed where peanuts and nuts are handled: see pick and mix and allergies
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White Chocolate Mice by the 100 g. Recipes differ between makers, so the card opens up to show the full ingredients and allergens for the white chocolate mice we actually stock.
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Questions and answers
Are white chocolate mice real chocolate?
Not the ones here. Sweets and Candy describes its white mice as white chocolate flavour candy, and none of the three listings includes cocoa butter. In England, white chocolate must contain at least 20 per cent cocoa butter.
What are white mice made of?
Hannah's White Mice, as recorded on Open Food Facts: sugar, palm fat, whey powder from milk, wheat flour with added calcium, iron, niacin and thiamin, rapeseed lecithin and natural flavourings.
Are white chocolate mice gluten free?
No. All three recipes here contain wheat flour.
Are white chocolate mice vegetarian?
Sweets and Candy lists its white mice as suitable for vegetarians. They contain whey powder from milk, so they are not vegan.
Sources
- White mice 1kg, product listing, Sweets and Candy
- Hannah's white mice, product record, Open Food Facts
- White mice, 140 g, product record, updated September 2026, Open Food Facts
- The Cocoa and Chocolate Products (England) Regulations 2003, Schedule 1, legislation.gov.uk
- The Bread and Flour Regulations 1998, Schedule 1, legislation.gov.uk
Keep reading
- Sweet by sweetPink and white micePink and white mice are chocolate flavoured candy mice with no cocoa in them. They contain milk, wheat and soya, and carmine turns them pink.
- How it is madeHow is chocolate made?Cocoa beans are fermented, dried, roasted and shelled; the nibs are ground to liquor, mixed with sugar and often milk, then conched smooth and tempered.
- Diet, allergens and labelsMilk in sweetsMilk is one of the 14 allergens. It turns up in chocolate, fudge, toffee, caramel and butterscotch, sometimes as milk powder or whey. How to spot it on a label.
- Diet, allergens and labelsWheat in sweetsWheat turns up in liquorice, wafer bars and malted centres, while wheat glucose syrup is exempt from gluten labelling. How to spot wheat and gluten.
- Diet, allergens and labelsSoya in sweetsSoya can appear in sweets as soya lecithin, E322, an emulsifier used in chocolate. Soya is one of the 14 allergens, though some soya ingredients are exempt.
- Diet, allergens and labelsHow to read a sweet labelWhat each part of a sweet label means: ingredients by weight, allergens in bold, E numbers, the nutrition table, legal warnings and when there is no date.