Vegan Food Awards 2024

From high-end to the high street, PETA’s Vegan Food Awards are back with a bang for 2024. With the standard getting higher every year, we can guarantee that these winning products will delight vegans and yet-to-be vegans alike!

Best Cheese

La Fauxmagerie

La Fauxmagerie – Brixton Blue
When it came to selecting the best vegan cheese, we turned to celebrity chef Theo Michaels, who said, “I was hesitant about vegan cheese – until now. Wow! My tastebuds have just been blown. … The Brixton Blue is ripe, creamy, full of flavour, and has a certain brittleness that I’d hoped for. It’d pair perfectly with a serendipitously placed glass of red wine.” Available from Waitrose stores or directly from Fauxmagerie.
Best Milk

Oato

Oato – Barista Whole
Oato prides itself on using 100% British oats, which it combines with filtered water to create oatrageously creamy plant milk that’s delicious in your morning coffee, splashed over cereal, or sipped on its own. Made in Lancashire, Oato is available at Waitrose stores across the UK and from Modern Milkman, which delivers it in reusable glass bottles to your door. Old-style delivery with a truly modern milk. Support British farmers – drink oat milk!
Best Vegan Chicken

PETA

Chick’N’Sours – Vegan MK2
This vegan chicken patty from Chick’N’Sours delivers a perfectly crispy taste explosion. Served with a crunchy green slaw, ginger miso, kimchi, and sriracha mayo, this plant-based feast packs all the flavour – with none of the cruelty. Head over to one of the London branches to try it for yourself!
Best Pie

The Fog on the Tyne

The Fog on the Tyne – Magpye Vegan Steak & Ale Pie
This popular Gateshead pub serves up rich and comforting Magpye vegan pies with crushed potatoes, peas, and vegan gravy. Pieces of succulent plant-based seitan steak coated in a stout and onion gravy are all wrapped up in handmade vegan-butter pastry. Not in the Gateshead area? Order direct from the Magpye bakery and fill your freezer.
Best Ready Meal

Strong Roots

Strong Roots – Veggie Masala
This frozen blend of spiced chickpeas and cauliflower in a tasty tomato sauce with jasmine rice makes the perfect dinner when you’re short on time or just fancy putting your feet up for the evening. It’s healthy, affordable, convenient, and delicious.
Best Pizza

One Planet Pizza

One Planet Pizza – Tex Mex
Promising a “fiery fiesta” for the tastebuds, the Tex Mex from One Planet Pizza boasts a wood-fired sourdough base topped with family-recipe tomato sauce, delicious veggies, and vegan cheese. To top it all off, One Planet Pizza’s products have less fat, sugar, and salt than leading non-vegan pizzas and are better for the planet, too.
Best Sandwich

M&S Café

M&S Café – Very Veggie Toastie
Bored of lunch? Ditch your usual for a day and get your hands on the Very Veggie Toastie from one of Marks & Spencer’s cafés. Filled with seasoned butternut squash, red onion, peppers, vegan feta cheese, and a red pepper tapenade, this toastie packs a load of veggie goodness between two thick slices of sourdough bread. The humble toastie has never tasted so good!
Best Cake

Cake Box

Cake Box – Vegan Speculoos Bliss Cake
If you’re looking for the perfect celebration cake, look no further than the Vegan Speculoos Bliss Cake from Cake Box. Filled with vegan caramel buttercream, this delectable dessert is rich, creamy, and free from any animal-derived ingredients. Have it delivered, or collect from one of over 200 Cake Box locations across the UK.
Best Doughnuts

Crave

Crave – Sugared Ring Dodoughs
As the first doughnuts designed to go straight from the freezer to the air fryer or oven, Crave’s Sugared Ring Dodoughs are ready to make your day. Vegan, gluten-free, and utterly nom-able, these bite-size treats do not disappoint.
Best Chocolate

Knoops

Knoops – 38% Oat M*lk Hot Chocolate
This 38% oat milk hot chocolate from Knoops is the perfect mid-afternoon mug of deliciousness. With Knoops locations all across the UK, you’ll never be too far from a velvety hot chocolate treat, but you can also make it at home by ordering the chocolate flakes directly from the online store. Try topping with dairy-free whipped cream for extra decadence – with no cruelty to cows.
Best Ice Cream

DAPPA

DÁPPA – Soft Serve
Visit DÁPPA’s 100% vegan ice cream shop in London or stockists across the UK to get your hands on soft serve that’s as creamy as ice cream can get. Combine almond- and cashew-based ice cream with toppings of your choice and tuck in!
Best Luxury Product

The Shortbread Company

The Shortbread Company – Vegan Maple Pecan
These moreish, buttery handmade treats are guaranteed to melt in your mouth. Beautifully packaged with a luxurious touch, these premium shortbreads make the perfect gift for friends and family – go on, share them with your loved ones and spread some vegan joy!
Best Vegan Egg

Hedgerow Café

Hedgerow Café – VG Poached Egg
There’s no better place to find a vegan poached egg than Hedgerow, an award-winning, family-run vegan café located in Plymouth Market. The delightful vegan poached eggs are the stars of the Feggs Florentine dish, which serves two of them on toasted sourdough bread, smothered in creamy vegan hollandaise sauce, with garlic-fried greens and fresh herbs on the side. Delish!
Best Butter

Lurpak

Lurpak – Plant Based
When it comes to vegan butter, Lurpak’s plant-based offering is second to none. Whether spread on toast or stirred into your favourite creamy curry, Lurpak Plant Based shows you really can have an exquisite buttery taste without the use of cruelly obtained ingredients. Way to go, Lurpak!
Best Christmas Pudding

Fortnum & Mason

Fortnum & Mason – Free From St James Christmas Pudding
Bursting with juicy vine fruits, Fortnum & Mason’s vegan Christmas pudding is soaked in Fortnum’s own Cognac and Pusser’s Navy Rum along with a delectable nut-free amaretto. Made to a new recipe, this pudding is gluten-free, nut-free, and cruelty-free, so you and your loved ones can tuck in this festive season knowing that no animal suffered for your pud.

With such an array of fantastic vegan foods out there, there’s no excuse for supporting the exploitation and abuse of animals by serving them on a plate. The meat, fishing, egg, and dairy industries put animals through hell so humans can steal their flesh, eggs, and milk.

Piglets’ tails may be docked without painkillers. Fish are cut open while they’re still alive. Chickens are confined to crowded sheds where the stench of ammonia is so strong it burns their lungs, and then their throats are slit while they’re still conscious. In the dairy industry, calves are torn away from their distraught mothers 36 hours after birth and can be heard bellowing in fear as they’re separated. No one should endure this anguish.

As well as being relentlessly cruel to animals, the meat and dairy industries have a catastrophic impact on the environment. Vegan foods have a smaller carbon footprint than animal-derived foods, as animal agriculture is a leading producer of the greenhouse gases that are driving the climate catastrophe. Animal agriculture also has a shocking water footprint, with each meat-eater responsible for using, on average, 15,000 litres of water a day.

It’s simple. The only way to help animals and the planet is to go vegan. And once you’ve tasted these award-winning vegan options, you’ll never look back.

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