Ilchester Vegan Melting Mature

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Cheese Alternatives

Ilchester’s “Best Melting Vegan Cheeze” Now in Slices at Sainsbury’s

Top British flavoured cheese supplier Ilchester is to launch its popular Vegan Melting Mature in a new sliced format. The launch follows the success of the Vegan Melting Mature block, which won gold in the Dairy-Free Cheese Alternative category of the International Cheese Awards 2022. The vegan cheese debuted as part of a selection box for Christmas 2020, but proved so popular that it was made permanently available — along with Ilchester Vegan Blue — in July of last year. Ilchester is part of the Norseland portfolio, which features both dairy and plant-based cheeses. Two more award-winning brands, Applewood Vegan and Mexicana Vegan, are also included in the portfolio. Conventional cheese brands go vegan Norseland is not the only dairy cheese brand to have expanded …

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applewood's vegan cheese product

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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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Ilchester Vegan Melting Mature

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Ilchester Vegan Melting Mature Wins Dairy-Free Category at International Cheese Awards

Norseland, the UK’s top blended cheese supplier, has won gold at the International Cheese Awards for its popular product Ilchester Vegan Melting Mature. The plant-based cheese, described by the Independent as “the best vegan melting cheeze on the market”, took first place in the Dairy-Free Cheese Alternative category. Ilchester said the product’s “meltability”, a property often lacking in vegan cheeses, had made it popular with flexitarians as well as plant-based eaters. “This is the first award for Ilchester’s first-ever plant-based cheeze, and what an award to win!” said Lisa Harrison, Marketing Manager for Ilchester and Applewood. “The International Cheese Awards 2022 are highly respected in the industry and across the world, and the competition is always very tough, so I am really thrilled that the …

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