Vegan Food Awards 2020: PETA India Reveals Winners

PETA India’s Vegan Food Awards are back in 2020 with brands like: Ahimsa - The Vegan Cafe (Shirdi), Borges, Epigamia and Urban Platter on their winning list. The Vegan Food Awards were first announced in 2014 by PETA India as a step towards promoting veganism and highlighting the reality of factory farming of animals. The awards list the best vegan foods in India under different categories to promote cruelty-free eating.

This year’s winners include the following:

1. Best Vegan Paneer: 1Ness Vegan Paneer

2. Best Vegan Cheese: Soft Spot Foods Mozzarella Cheese 

3. Best Vegan Mithai: Vijay Sweets Iron Man Ladoo

4. Best Vegan Cafe: Ahimsa - The Vegan Cafe (Shirdi)

5. Best Vegan Spread: Urban Platter Vegan Italian Herb Mayo

6. Best Vegan Ice Cream: Gelato Factory Hazelnut Vegan Ice Cream

7. Best Vegan Milk: Borges Natura Rice and Walnut Drink

Source: Borges Natura

8. Best Vegan Shrikhand: Chetran’s Soyakhand

9. Best Vegan Yoghurt: Epigamia Coconut Milk Yoghurt with Coconut Jaggery

Source: Epigamia

10. Best Vegan Cake: The Cinnamon Kitchen’s Amaranth and Almond Flour Dark Chocolate Cake with Cashew Buttercream

11. Best Vegan Meat: Veggie Champ Vegan Mock Duck

12. Best Vegan Influencer: Vegan Richa (Richa Hingle)

The recipients of the awards share some insights

"At Borges, we are committed towards a sustainable future and we have been incorporating this in our products and processes. Recently, we introduced Nut milks to the world, leveraging over 120 years of our expertise in the nuts business. And were quite delighted to receive such positive feedback from around the world including India, a market that is catching up real quick on plant-based and sustainable lifestyles. This recognition from PETA India reaffirms our confidence in the product as well as encourages us to keep innovating towards a sustainable future." says Debidutt Acharya, Marketing Head at Borges India.

Sumit Pratap Gupta from Ahimsa-The Vegan Cafe in Shirdi said, "We're grateful to receive this by PETA India as our objective has been to spread kindness far and wide. That has been the vision of our Founder and inspiration Mohanji ."

PETA India emphasizes the negative impact of factory farming on animals, the environment, and human beings, as the largest global pandemics including Covid-19 have been a result of animal agriculture. Factory farming is also a massive contributor to climate change due to excess methane emissions and the overuse of resources like land and water.