UK’s leading plant-based cheese wins 11th award

One of the UK’s leading plant-based cheezes has a lot to celebrate after scooping its 11th award.

Applewood Vegan, the second biggest vegan cheeze brand* in the UK and the plant-based version of the UK’s number one smoky cheese, Applewood, has won the Best Smoked Vegan Cheese of 2022 in the Vegan Cheese Awards 2022. It is the second time in a row that Applewood Vegan has won this award. The award organisers described it as “a favourite supermarket vegan cheese around the world and wins again for 2022”.

This award follows hot on the heels of other awards success this year. Applewood Vegan won the Silver Award Dairy Free Cheese Alternative in the ‘Cheese – any variety that contains savoury additives’ category in the International Cheese Awards, and bronze in the Blended ­- Smoked category in the British Cheese Awards last month.

Applewood was the UK’s first major cheese brand to launch a vegan cheese alternative when it hit the market back in October 2019. It proved to be so popular with vegans – and flexitarians – when it launched, that 40% of the stores of the first major supermarket that stocked it sold out on the first day.

Its popularity was due to its meltability factor; it melts just as well as its dairy cheese counterparts. It is fortified with B12 and calcium, is coconut based, has Applewood’s unique smoked flavouring and is free from dairy, lactose, soya, gluten and palm oil.

Following the success of the Applewood Vegan launch, the Grated and Slices format quickly followed, and so did the awards.

Ffion Davies, Brand Manager, for Applewood and Applewood Vegan, says: “This year has been very successful for Applewood Vegan on the awards and listings front. This is the third award for our plant-based smoky cheeze so far this year and is on the icing on the cake on what has been a great year. We have recently secured listings in Morrisons for our block and grated, and we are looking forward to some more listings for our multi-award-winning cheeze. Watch this space!”

Applewood Vegan in block, grated and slices format is available to buy in Sainsbury’s, Asda, Morrisons, Tesco, Waitrose and Ocado.