Owned by The Hershey Company
Is Lesser Evil Snacks Healthy?
Lesser Evil Snacks is a mixed bag. Some of its products lean on cleaner, less-processed ingredients while others don't, so quality varies from one product to the next — worth checking each one. Many carry flagged additives.
Lesser Evil Snacks by the numbers
How Lesser Evil Snacks products are rated
- Good Choice: 77 (59%)
- Okay Choice: 21 (16%)
- Better Options Available: 33 (25%)
About Lesser Evil Snacks
LesserEvil makes organic snacks built around a mindful-snacking philosophy: popcorn, puffs, and curls made with short, recognizable ingredient lists. The brand grew from a small operation into a snack maker with its own certified-organic factory in Danbury, Connecticut, and was acquired by The Hershey Company in 2025.
Acquired by The Hershey Company; deal announced April 2025 and completed November 2025.
- Founded
- 2004
- Headquarters
- Danbury, CT, USA
- Parent company
- The Hershey Company
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