GBD Doner Wins PETA Vegan Food Award for Best Vegan Kebab

21.10.25

GBD Doner Wins PETA Vegan Food Award for Best Vegan Kebab

Manchester – From creamy dairy-free camembert to sensational vegan doner cooked on a spit, the winners of PETA’s 2025 Vegan Food Awards illustrate that innovation and demand for vegan foods continues to soar, disproving the meat lobby’s false narrative about the state of the vegan food market.

Picking up the award for Best Vegan Kebab is Manchester-based business GBD Doner for its vegan Doner Box, which includes meat carved from the world’s first vegan doner on a spit. Packed with plant-powered protein and slow-cooked to perfection, this delicious creation is paired with lettuce, red and white cabbage, onion, pickled cucumber, and two sauces of your choice.

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Family-owned Glebe Farm takes top honours this year in the Best Milk category for its smooth and rich PureOaty Tea-rrific Oat milk, which is made with oats from British farms and perfect with a cup of tea. Comedian Romesh Ranganathan’s collaboration with Coughlan’s Bakery, the moreish Ranga Yum Yum, stole the show for best pastry. The competition was sizzling this year for Best Vegan Steak, and Aldi’s Ultimate No Beef Flank Steak led the pack as a succulent, premium option at an affordable price.

Other winners include the Mushroom Bourguignon from Canterbury’s rock n’ roll bar The Lady Luck for Best Pie; The Queen Inn’s bold and spicy Cajun Ch*cken Wings for Best Vegan Chicken; UnMEAT’s savoury and protein-packed Tuna in Water for Best Vegan Fish; the eco-minded and allergy-friendly Fetcha Chocolates for Best Chocolate; and Caffè Nero’s sensational Apple Crumble & Custard Tart for Best Dessert.

Rounding out the awards are Jay & Joy (Best Vegan Cheese), Pizza Express (Best Pizza), Lidl (Best Pasta), Pipp & Co (Best Doughnut), BEAR (Best Ice Cream), and Soph’s Plant Kitchen by Sophie Waplington (Best Cookbook).

“The future of food is vegan. As more people seek out flavourful foods that are kind to animals, their bodies, and the planet, businesses are responding with exciting and delicious animal-free fare,” says PETA Vice President of Vegan Corporate Projects Dawn Carr. “Whether dining in or out, PETA’s winners show how easy and delicious it is to upgrade to vegan foods.”

In today’s meat, egg, dairy, and fishing industries, cows are forcibly separated from their beloved calves, chickens’ throats are cut while they’re still conscious, piglets’ tails are docked without painkillers, and fish are cut open while they’re still alive. PETA notes that vegan foods have a smaller carbon footprint, while the meat and dairy industries are top producers of the greenhouse gases that contribute to the climate catastrophe. Eating vegan also lowers a person’s risk of developing heart disease and certain types of cancer.

PETA – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat” – points out that Every Animal is Someone and offers free vegan starter kits for anyone looking to make the switch. For more information, please visit PETA.org.uk or follow PETA on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

Contact:

Jennifer White +44 (0) 20 7837 6327; [email protected]

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