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Free From

Best Things In Life Are Free From gluten & allergens.

Free from means you’re free at last to eat foods you love, with people you love, free from risk & worry. Safe and scrumptious, it’s time to feel you belong again.

Unlike other brands, we never sell anything we don’t make ourselves.

ALL products are gluten-free & free from dairy, nuts, peanuts & soy.

Most products are also free from egg.

No GMOs, preservatives, artificial colours or flavours. 



Watch to see how we guarantee our ingredients & finished products are free from cross-contamination in our dedicated facility. So, you can enjoy safe & scrumptious baked goods, every time. 
Watch & learn how we overcome the challenges of gluten-free baking. From sticky doughs, to scaling up recipes, to creating totally new technologies. It's never dull in our PDC dept. 
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Dedicated Facility

Kinnikinnick bakes goodies #FreeFrom gluten, dairy, peanuts, nuts, soy & GMO in one of the world’s largest dedicated facilities.


Gluten isn't allowed anywhere in our facilities.


Unlike other brands, we never sell anything we don’t make ourselves.


Every product we produce is gluten-free.

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Safety

We take care of everything so you can safely enjoy the smell & taste of warm bread and baked goodies again.


Tears of joy & relief are allowed.


Since 1991, Kinnikinnick has stood for safe & scrumptious food, baked to perfection using top-quality, clean ingredients in tried & tested recipes. That’s a lot of artistry & expertise you can trust.

Palm Oil


Ethical Sourcing

To fight deforestation and protect the Orangutans in Indonesia where our palm oil comes from, we only purchase palm oil from RSPO Certified Companies.


This means suppliers can trace the oil's origin to the exact plantation, which must follow strict guidelines that prevent deforestation & promote biodiversity.

Certified by these organizations

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Ingredients

Every single ingredient in Kinnikinnick baked goods comes only from suppliers who guarantee the safest allergy-friendly standards. 


WE LAB TEST TO GUARANTEE FREE FROM


Lab Tested


WE DON'T USE THE FOLLOWING IN OUR PRODUCTS OR FACILITY
  • Sesame
  • Mustard
  • Shellfish
  • GMOs except in canola oil temporarily
  • Artificial Colours
  • Artificial Flavours
  • Preservatives
  • Latex
  • Oats*



Testing for Gluten & Allergens

Every ingredient is quarantined at our bakery until it passes our stringent in-house lab testing protocols.


For gluten, we guarantee less than 5 parts per million (that’s even better than the 20 parts per million standard set by the CFIA and the FDA to claim ‘gluten-free’). 5 parts per million is tiny. Imagine 5 pennies in a stack of ten thousand dollars!

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Our food scientists test: 
  • New ingredients using high sensitivity lab tests for gluten,  dairy, peanuts, tree nuts and soy.
  • Existing ingredients based on an assessment of risk.
  • Ingredients spot-checked using rapid-test kits.
  • Products checked daily for quality. 
  • Products tested for allergens throughout the year.

    Our products are also tested by accredited labs to verify our in-house testing.
 Petri dish testing

Kinnikinnick has been removing genetically modified (GM) ingredients from our products for years. Our packaging lists non GMO ingredients with a *. If ingredients don't have the * designation, it's because there are no approved GM versions of that ingredient, (rice, cane sugar etc.). As of Jan 2022 we cannot guarantee canola oil is free from GMOs due to supply chain issues. 


Read more about GMO's at the bottom of this page. 

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Eggs

Egg whites are in our gluten-free English Muffins, (NOT Traditional English Muffins), Vanilla Wafers and Ginger Snaps. Donuts and Muffins contain whole eggs. 
Check our free from egg range.

We're in the process of taking eggs out from most of our range. 

What does May Contain: egg mean? Hans Jorgensen, Food Services Manager explains.


"May contain: egg" means that although that product does not contain any egg ingredients, it is produced in a facility where egg ingredients are used in other products. 

Ingredients and allergens are listed for all products so you're free from risk & worry sticking to your diet.

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To oat or not?

Although oats do NOT naturally contain gluten, cross-contamination with other grains can happen when seeding the crop, harvesting and during production. Because some people can't tolerate oats, we never use them so everyone can enjoy our products.


A Health Canada review in 2015 concludes "limiting daily consumption of gluten-free oats is not required". For more information see Celiac Disease and Gluten Free Claims on Uncontaminated Oats.



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GMO

We've been listening to you!

Kinnikinnick has been removing genetically modified (GM) ingredients from our product line for the last several years. Our packaging lists non GM ingredients with a *.



As of Jan 2022 we temporarily cannot guarantee canola oil is free from GMOs due to supply chain issues.

Please remember many of our ingredients are not * designated because there are no approved GM versions of that ingredient (rice, cane sugar, palm oil etc) so they are by definition non GM.

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We're Committed to You


Guaranteeing free from GM is a huge and difficult undertaking given the other restrictions we already have on our supply chain (free from gluten, dairy, peanuts, tree nuts, soy and kosher to boot). We use a lot of  specialized ingredients and finding substitutes in the quantities we need can be very problematic. But we're committed to providing the safest ingredients for our customers, so it's worth the extra effort.

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