Vegan food shopping has never been easier. You can continue to enjoy many of your favourite foods and brands.
However, it can be a fun adventure to find and try new foods! You’ll need to read product labels for a while until you get used to shopping vegan,
but you’ll soon find it easy to adapt to a compassionate diet.
Please ask us for help if you need it and you can get further advice from great feature articles in our Associate’s magazine VEGAN24 and by following our social media feeds. [Tip: search #easy2bvegan]
NB: We advocate purchasing veganic / organic goods wherever availability and budget allows, as these farming systems are far kinder to our environment and to all of
the wildlife within it.
Logos that enable you to shop with confidence:
Vegan Society registered trademark.
Plamil vegan trademark logo.
Supermarket guides:
We asked all of the UK’s leading supermarkets about their Vegan product availability, labeling, listings and logos. As you’ll see from the responses below, some are far better than others at the moment. We’ll continue working with them and with manufacturers to improve the situation and make it easier for us to shop quickly and safely. Those supermarkets with vegan lists are in green.
Aldi
“I can confirm that we do sell a lot of vegan-friendly items in the store, unfortunately we do not have a list of all the products that I could send to
you, but can confirm that all our products have an ingredients list on them so we would recommend that your members look at the labels of the items in
the store for more information.”
Asda
“As we discussed, unfortunately we wouldn’t be able to supply you with a list of products suitable for Vegans due to the constant changes to our Asda brand
of items, I can certainly understand the query you raised with myself and it would certainly make shopping a lot easier. We do put as a statement on back
of pack at the end of the ingredients declaration where we are advised to do so, but currently we don’t have a graphic or symbol which we apply to either
back or front of pack, we just have this for vegetarian products.”
Co-op
“Thank you for taking the trouble to contact the Customer Careline regarding our Vegan policies and please find enclosed an answer to your query – a copy of our most recent Vegan list. I can confirm we do use the V symbol to indicate Vegan or vegetarian.” Contact for the spread sheet
here.
Farmfoods
“As we are a retailer and not the manufacturer of our products we do not have a detailed list of vegan items. However, if there was a specific product that
you required further information about please do not hesitate to contact us.” Customer Services : 0 or email.
Iceland
Still waiting to hear back…
Lidl
“We are not able to provide you with a full list of Lidl products that are suitable for a Vegan diet. We continuously change our suppliers to make sure
that we have the best quality products at the lowest prices at all times. This may change the suitability of a particular product. If there is a specific
item you would like to know about we can contact the current supplier for you. Please let us know the barcode of the item you are interested in and email us.
”
M&S
Provide a helpful list: read it here.
“This is a list of M&S products that are suitable for vegan diets. These foods have been produced under controlled conditions to prevent any cross
contamination. These lists are updated on a monthly basis to capture new products and recipe changes. You can request a new list directly from or download your own copy from www.marksandspencer.com/health”
Morrisons
“Unfortunately, we do not supply any lists at Morrisons that can show foods suitable for Vegans as we believe lists can become out dated and inaccurate. As the
packaging on our products is updated regularly and in accordance with any recipe or ingredient changes we much prefer our customers to rely on this
information to save any confusion.”
Nisa
“We do have a list of Heritage products that are suitable for Vegans and I attach a list current as of today’s date but you will appreciate this may change
over time when new products are listed and delisted in the future. I am afraid we do not label our products as suitable for Vegans or with any symbols
indicating as such, we do this for suitable for Vegetarians only.” Contact here for a list.
Ocado
Were unable to help us unless we had an account! We’ll keep trying…
Sainsburys
Provide a helpful list. Read it here.
“To access a list of products that are suitable for people following a Vegan diet please look at the product guidance list on our Live Well for Less
website that I have provided a link to. As the information provided in the product guidance lists is updated or altered regularly you can
unfortunately not link directly to the list however you can tell those who use your website how to access it.”
Tesco
Provide a helpful list. Read it here.
“I would like to thank you for your interest in the Vegan List and the issue of Animal Testing I have attached the Vegan list for you. Lists of Tesco
products suitable for Vegans are available from our Customer Services and is updated every 3 months.” Telephone: or email.
Waitrose
Provide a helpful list. Read it here.
“The Waitrose nutrition team offer guidance on diets and healthy eating, and we’re able to supply nutrition information on all Waitrose own-label products.
We provide lists of Waitrose own-label products that are free-from particular allergens and suitable for special diets. These can be downloaded from our
website. These are updated regularly to help you with your shopping, but it’s always advisable to check the ingredients and allergen
panel on the back of the pack just in case they’ve recently changed. If you’d like a hard copy of a listing, please provide me with your full postal
address and we’d be happy to send a copy to you as soon as possible.”
Wholefoods
“I’m afraid we don’t have a list of all the Vegan products we stock at Piccadilly Circus, our product mix changes on a regular basis so this would be hard
to keep up to date. However, if you’re looking for some specific products we can certainly let you know if we stock them. Most products that are Vegan will
say on the packaging, to help you locate Vegan products we could offer you a personal store tour showing you Vegan products that we currently stock.”
Helpful apps and websites for food ingredient research:
Is It Vegan? App.
An extensive animal ingredients list, courtesy of PETA.
A comprehensive list of animal derived ingredients from Michaelbluejay.com
Wikipedia
is a great site for searching on ingredients that you’re unsure of.
A useful list of animal derived ingredients found in food, by Vegan Easy.
Answers to some common questions from the Vegetarian Resource Group.