Vegan Food Awards 2025
From grab-and-go to gourmet gastronomy, we were spoilt for choice this year, thanks to an exciting range of new products and menu items. Showcasing the best from British farmers and animal-free fare, this year’s winners of PETA’s Vegan Food Awards will delight long-term vegans and aspiring kind gourmands alike.
Best Milk – Glebe Farm, PureOaty Tea-rrific Oat
Made from 100% British Oats (which support local farmers), Glebe Farm’s PureOaty Tea-rrific Oat milk is the brainchild of a Cambridgeshire-based brother and sister team. Made from just four pure ingredients (and no added sugar), it’s the ideal milk for hot drinks. Best of all? From your book club members to your builder, anyone to whom you offer a cuppa will love the taste of this milk in their mug.
Best Vegan Steak – Aldi, The Ultimate No Beef Flank Steak
Those looking to sink their teeth into a juicy, melt-in-your-mouth vegan steak need look no further than Aldi, home of The Ultimate No Beef Flank Steak. Tender, packed with protein, and served in packs of two generous portions, these steaks are showstoppers. Pair them with peppercorn sauce and a robust Malbec to impress, or serve them with chips for a classic mid-week meal.
Best Vegan Chicken – The Queen Inn, Cajun Ch*cken Wings
Ever since The Queen Inn pub in Cwmbran launched its all-vegan menu, the Welsh wonder has been booked solid with visitors clamouring to enjoy their innovative dishes. Spicy and tender, the pub’s winning Cajun Ch*cken Wings come served with buttery mash, corn on the cob, and ranch.
Best Cheese – Jay & Joy, Albert
If you dream of plating up elegant dishes that taste as good as they look, this creamy and smooth vegan camembert from Jay & Joy is exactly what you need. Made with a high-quality soya and cashew mix using traditional cheesemaking methods, this little beauty has all the flavour plus that distinctive camembert rind.
Best Vegan Fish – unMEAT, Tuna in Water
Packed with flavour and protein yet low in calories, unMEAT’s Tuna in Water delivers tender, fish-free pieces without harming a single fin. Great mixed with some vegan mayo and chopped celery on crispbread and sandwiches, but honestly, it’s hard not to eat straight from the tin.
Best Kebab – GBD Doner, Vegan Doner Box
Step aside, falafel. The Vegan Doner Box comes from the world’s first vegan doner on a spit which is packed with plant-powered protein, slow-cooked to perfection, and carefully carved. This delicious creation is paired with lettuce, red and white cabbage, onion, pickled cucumber, and two sauces of your choice. So tasty, you won’t want to wait for a night out to get stuck in.
Best Ice Cream – BEAR, Biscoff Sundae
Few things hit the spot quite like a sweet swirl of soft serve, and BEAR Hockley’s exclusive new Oatly Soft Serve is a cut above. If silky, creamy soft serve topped with a delicious Biscoff biscuit, Biscoff crumb, and Biscoff sauce is your idea of heaven, head to BEAR for a cup. Please note, sticking your head under the nozzle is frowned upon, however tempted you may be!
Best Chocolate – Fetcha Chocolates
When Cannes Film Festival organisers wanted to treat VIPs with indulgent treats in their gift bags, Fetcha Chocolates were the clear choice. From decadent boxed chocolates to nostalgic sweets and seasonal goodies (like vegan chocolate coins for Christmas!). Impressively crafted for gifting, but priced so you can simply treat yourself, Fetcha chocolates are famously fit for a King, earning a visit from His Majesty on a trip to Scotland.
Best Pastry – Coughlan’s Bakery, Ranga Yum Yum
A craveable collaboration between the innovative pastry chefs at Coughlan’s Bakery and vegan comedian Romesh Ranganathan, the Ranga Yum Yum combines fluffy, deep-fried dough with indulgent chocolate and crunchy Biscoff. A welcome addition to Coughlan’s impressive vegan range.
Best Pasta – Lidl, Vemondo Medaglioni with mushrooms
Some days, coming home to an easy pasta dish that takes no time at all yet delivers on flavour is exactly what you need. Bursting with bold flavours, Lidl’s Vemondo Medaglioni with mushrooms features a generous serving of a satisfyingly seasoned medley of fungi wrapped in pasta that cooks delightfully al dente every time. It’s so good that we had to create a new category to sing its praises.
Best Pizza – Pizza Express, Vegan Harissa Melanzane
You’ll think you’ve been transported to Genova the moment you bite into this authentic, crusty pizza. Loaded with char-grilled aubergines, tomato, garlic and creamy vegan mozzarella base, and finished with crunchy garlic and rosemary breadcrumbs, smoky tomato and chilli harissa, this pizza is your ticket to Italy.
Best Pie – The Lady Luck, Mushroom Bourguignon
Hunkering down in a cosy pub with a flaky, hearty pie is a British rite of passage, and there’s no more satisfying crust than the Mushroom Bourguignon pie served at The Lady Luck, Canterbury’s hugely popular rock n’ roll bar. Here, golden-brown pastry envelops sautéed mushrooms in a smoky red wine sauce. Served with a side of garden peas and mash, it partners perfectly with a pint.
Best Doughnut – Pipp & Co, Rhubarb & Ginger Jam Doughnut
The dark days when slow-fermented brioche-style dough was off limits to vegans are well and truly over, thanks to Pipp & Co. This decadent doughnut is made with locally milled flour and a proprietary oat milk to create an allergy-free treat bursting with spicy warmth. Dusted with sugar dust made from berries, it’s every inch the sustainable sweet, delivered in Swindon.
Best Dessert – Caffè Nero, Plant Based Apple Crumble & Custard Tart
Your sweet tooth called, and it wants to go to Caffè Nero, stat! A dessert for any time of day, the Plant Based Apple Crumble & Custard Tart combines sweet slices of Bramley apples with a custard cheesecake filling and sweet pastry base finished with a cinnamon biscuit crumble. The perfect companion to your favourite coffee.
Best Cookbook – Soph’s Plant Kitchen by Sophie Waplington
Penned by beloved fitness coach Sophie Waplington, who draws over 1.4 million followers on Instagram, this collection of 100 healthy animal-free recipes is a Sunday Times bestseller. Full of high-fibre, protein-rich recipes to fuel you for life and nourish your gut, Sophie makes cooking simple with easy-to-follow steps and accessible ingredients.
Why Go Vegan?
Whether you want to indulge your sweet tooth or impress with flesh-free feasts, no one needs to fund the exploitation, abuse and slaughter of animals to eat, drink and be merry. Every animal is someone, but in the meat, dairy and egg industries, they suffer immensely.
Chickens are crammed into dark and dirty sheds on factory farms, where they can barely stretch a wing as the stench of ammonia burns their lungs. Piglets’ tails may be docked without painkillers, and most are gassed in groups before their throats are slit. Fish are beheaded and gutted while they’re still alive, gasping for breath. Mother cows used for dairy have their newborn babies repeatedly removed as they bellow with grief.
As well as being violent, the meat and dairy industries are destroying the planet and driving climate catastrophe, filling the atmosphere with warming gases and polluting waterways with excrement, chemicals, and blood.
Helping animals and the planet is as simple as adopting a vegan lifestyle! By choosing animal-free upgrades for the items you already buy, you’ll join a powerful social justice movement that’s as mouthwatering as it is compassionate.
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