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Charity & Campaigns

World Vegan Day: Celebrating 80 Years of Veganism with a Spotlight on Plant-Based Cheese Innovations

The Vegan Society, the world’s oldest vegan charity, is celebrating its 80th anniversary today, marking World Vegan Day. The society was founded in 1944 by Donald Watson and five other non-dairy vegetarians, who sought to create a movement distinct from vegetarianism and coined the term “vegan.” Over the past 80 years, the vegan movement has grown significantly, with veganism now recognized as a protected philosophical belief in the UK. Vegan options are available in supermarkets, restaurants, fashion, and cosmetics in Europe and North America, and the offer is slowly increasing in other continents. To celebrate its 80th anniversary, the charity is launching a virtual reality campaign, “The Future is Vegan.” The campaign features an AI-created avatar of co-founder Donald Watson, guiding users through a virtual world to …

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Cheese Alternatives

Applewood Vegan Reformulates Recipe to Closely Emulate Dairy Cheese

Applewood Vegan debuted almost five years ago and has since seen consistent success in the UK market, currently representing 20% of Applewood’s total sales. Now the brand announces a reformulated recipe for the vegan offering, aimed at enhancing its texture to more closely replicate the sensory experience of dairy cheese. “Over the past five years and since the creation of Applewood Vegan, we have witnessed significant advancements in plant-based food technologies. Through rigorous experimentation with numerous base recipes, we have successfully crafted a foundational recipe that closely emulates the richness of dairy. Our refined manufacturing process now mirrors that of our well-established Applewood dairy brand, contributing to a remarkable enhancement in texture,” explains the brand, a subsidiary of Norseland, a leading supplier of speciality blended …

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Cheese Alternatives

Applewood Vegan Launches Snacking Cheeses at Morrisons Stores UK-Wide

Applewood Vegan is launching its award-winning plant-based cheese in a new snacking format. Called Minis, the individually-wrapped cheeses come in packs of five and will be available at Morrisons stores across the UK. The product is Applewood’s first vegan snacking cheese, and joins the current vegan range entailing Appleood block, grated, and slices. The Minis are said to have the “smooth, smoky taste” that the brand is known for. Applewood Vegan is now the UK’s second-best-selling plant-based cheese, available at almost all major supermarket chains. It has won eleven awards, and the block format sold out almost immediately when it was first launched in 2019. Vegan snacking cheeses A few other brands have launched vegan versions of their snacking cheeses in recent years — including …

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Products & Launches

Award-Winning Applewood Vegan Cheese Launches at Ocado

Norseland‘s award-winning Applewood Vegan cheese is now available via the UK’s largest online supermarket, Ocado. The cheese is a plant-based version of Applewood, the UK’s bestselling smoky dairy cheese brand. Norseland was the first major UK cheese company to launch a vegan version of one of its products. Ocado now stocks both the Block and Grated versions of the cheese, becoming the sixth supermarket to offer the product after Asda, Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Waitrose, and The Vegan Kind. Huge popularity When it launched in 2019, the Applewood Vegan block sold out within 24 hours at 40% of the major supermarket stores where it was stocked. The cheese’s smoky flavour and meltability made it extremely popular with both plant-based eaters and flexitarians. Following the success of the …

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Products & Launches

One Planet Pizza Partners with Meatless Farm & AppleWood Cheese for UK’s First Vegan Cheezeburger Pizza

One Planet Pizza, the UK’s first and much-loved vegan frozen pizza company, announces today it has partnered with plant-based brands Meatless Farm, the legendary Applewood® Vegan cheese, and Mooshies vegan burger bar, to release a limited-edition Meatless Farm Cheezeburger Pizza.

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Applewood Launches its First Vegan Cheese with Heather Mills for New “Flexi Friday” Campaign

A decade after Meat Free Monday began, Applewood cheese, a well-known British brand famous for its smoky flavour, is spearheading another national day of meat reduction for the climate, called “Flexi Friday”. The company sent the first samples to the Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn and the Duchess of Sussex – all of whom claim to be flexitarians.

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