Cadbury Plant Bar: Vegan alternative to Dairy Milk chocolate set to launch

Cadbury have announced plans to release their first vegan product - a plant based chocolate bar.

Called the 'Plant Bar', it will be the first plant-based product for the company, and they have been developing it for two years.

The bar will go on sale in the UK next month, and comes as part of a drive by major food companies to expand their vegan ranges.

It comes as new research shows that the UK public now eating significantly less meat.

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A vegan is someone who doesn't eat or use animal products.

Unlike a vegetarian diet - where people don't eat meat or fish - a vegan diet avoids all animal products like dairy, eggs and even honey, as well as meat and fish. Some people prefer to call this way of eating 'a plant-based diet'.

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The new Cadbury chocolate bar uses almond milk instead of dairy milk and will come in two versions - smooth chocolate and smooth chocolate with salted caramel bits.

The company says the bar has taken two years to develop, and uses almond paste in the new recipe that "provides a similar taste and texture to milk ingredients while offering a hint of nuttiness".

The bar will come in 100% plant-based packaging from renewable sources, but they will cost more than double the price of a standard Dairy Milk bar.

Cadbury isn't the only company to introduce more vegan options - here are some other big names that are filling their menus up with some tasty vegan treats!

McDonald's recently announced plans for their first plant-based burger called, you guessed it, the McPlant burger!

The burger has all the Big Mac usuals, such as a sesame bun, mustard and ketchup, but comes with a plant-based burger and vegan cheese.

McDonald's are currently trailing the burger in select stores, but they have confirmed plans for the burger to be a staple in every McDonald's by 2022.

KFC have had a vegan burger on their menu since 2020, but plans have now been announced to test vegan chicken tenders in the US.

KFC's US president, Kevin Hochman, said: Our plan is to try to replicate that Kentucky Fried Chicken as close as we can, obviously without using the animal. A lot of that is about how the chicken cuts and tears. The gold standard is the chicken tenderloin or chicken strip."

Although it's being trialed in the USA, if successful UK stores could soon see the vegan chicken strips joining their menu!

Greggs have been a champion for rolling out vegan alternatives on their menus, from their vegan steak bake to vegan sausage rolls.

Greggs now has another addition to the vegan alternatives: the vegan sausage and bean cheese melt. The combination is of course topped off with vegan pastry.

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