VEGAN NEWS

Cooplands Launches Vegan Cheesy Bake U.K bakery chain Cooplands has added a vegan cheese and vegetable bake to its plant-based offerings. The new product features dairy-free cheese, potatoes, carrots, onions, swedes, peas & diced peppers. It is available in more than 160 Cooplands outlets across the North of England . The company remains open during the country’s second lockdown as it’s classed as an ‘essential business’. CEO of Cooplands Belinda Youngs said: “We are excited to partner with Violife to create a new plant-based cheese bake using their great tasting cheese replacement product”.

“For people who are either vegan or just looking to eat less meat in their diet or trying to do their bit for the environment, it is a tasty option.” Last year, Cooplands says it became one of the first highstreet bakeries to make all its bread 100 percent vegan. Youngs added: “At Cooplands we put our customers’ needs at the heart of our bakery operations. We know that many shoppers want to be really sure that the bread products that they are buying are 100 percent vegan and that’s why we are delighted to be the first high street bakery to be able to offer this to all our customers every day.”

The 130-year-old company also sells vegan sausage rolls and steak bakes.

Co-Op launches new plant based range

Asda recently hit the headlines when it announced it would be launching in two dedicated vegan bays filled entirely with plant-based products. Now Co-op supermarket is making it easier for shoppers to find plant-based food in one place as it teams up with awardwinning plant-based food business The

Brook, to launch new branded plantbased freezers in Co-op stores. Co-ops new plant-based freezers will be filled with a tempting array of high-quality, frozen plant-based ready meals from The Brook as part of its mission to ‘make delicious, sustainable food more widely accessible.’ Customers looking for tasty meat-free meals can now access The Brook’s range of meals, desserts and cooking sauces by visiting one of the selected Co-op stores or ordering directly online. The new plant-based freezers can now be found at Central England Co-op stores, including the brand-new flagship store in Boley Park, Lichfield. If they prove popular, the freezers will be rolled out to further stores across the UK.

Beyond Meat To Launch 2 ‘Juicier’ Vegan Burgers

Beyond Meat has announced the launch of two new vegan burgers that are ‘juicier’ than its flagship patty. The new meat analogs will contain a significantly lower amount of saturated fat in comparison to beef. Beyond Meat says one of the new burgers has 35 percent less saturated fat compared to 80/20 beef. The other, which it described as its ‘most nutritious patty yet’ contains 55 percent less saturated fat than 80/20 beef.

Both burgers will ‘boast the same savory taste profile’ and have fewer calories than 80/20 beef. Morever, they will have ‘B vitamins and minerals comparable to the micronutrient profile of beef’.