Fruit Used in Vegan Cheese and Why?

Vegan Cheeses with Lemon

Coming top as the most commonly used fruit in vegan cheese is lemon. When it comes to the number of vegan cheese's that utilises lemon as a flavour, there are surprisingly more than you would think and below we show you the number of vegan cheeses that have lemon in their ingredients list from our database of vegan cheese.

Lemon provides a zingy, zesty and vibrant flavour and it's use in vegan cheese also has the benefit of providing acidity to a cheese that may need it. 

Therefore you'll find the jump from the amount of vegan cheeses with lemon to the next most used fruit to be quite high as it's popularity in the cheese seems more so for it's ability to provide an acidic component which helps to give that cheesy flavour. 

It'll often be added in the form of lemon juice, lemon zest, powder or pulp or candied lemon peel and a few lemon specialities include the Meyer lemon and Amalfi lemon oil and don't forget to use the search feature on our vegan cheese database to find vegan cheeses with lemon right here.

Pictured is Doublebatch Lemon Pepper Ricotta

If you are particularly intrigued by the use of lemon in vegan cheese, we'd recommend our make vegan cheese section. This highlights online vegan cheese recipes, vegan cheese books and vegan cheese courses that will give you more details on creating the perfect vegan cheese. 

Vegan Cheese with Cranberry

The ultimate fruit vegan cheese classic, cranberry. There are so many options with cranberry as an ingredient that you can see in our vegan cheese database, just use the filters or the search function for "cranberry". 

Cranberry is a statement kind of fruit and in fact one that can be seen as a festive favourite too, so if you love this type of cheese keep an eye out around November-January as you will also find vegan cheese makers making limited edition cranberry vegan cheese as a seasonal treat for Christmas.

Cranberries bring quite a bright and tart flavour. A vegan cheese with cranberries is generally a mild, smooth semi-soft cheese that compliments well with these bold flavour, often a crumbly cheese that crumbles around the cranberries. Some vegan cheese will use dried or even freeze-dried cranberries and these will often bring that extra sweetness to the cheese too, with a few using cranberry juice throughout the cheese to flavour it.

Head on over to the vegan cheese database to search for plant based cheeses with cranberry.

Pictured is the Nutty Artisan Foods Co Curado Con Arándanos Queso Vegano

Vegan Cheese with Apricot

An up and coming favourite in vegan cheese, apricot. This fruit is actually in one of our favourite vegan cheeses that you can find in the UK by Pips and you'll find a lot of their vegan cheeses have fruit used in them.

It's soft sweetness and bright flavour is not as juicy as cranberries but works wonderfully in a semi-soft crumbly vegan cheese. It's a more of an easy-going kind of fruit vegan cheese. It's slightly firm yet still succulent apricot pieces make for a refreshing flavour and texture. You'll also notice that apricot vegan cheese is quite popular alongside spices such as cumin or complimenting a little heat from chilli. 

In vegan cheese you'll likely to see apricot used in the form of apricot pieces or dried apricots. Some are contained in sulphites, which will help the shelf life of the apricots.

Here you can see the vegan cheeses in our database that all contain apricot by using our one of a kind search feature.

Pictured is Wendy's Vegan Kitchen Sweet & Sassy Vegan Cheese

Vegan Cheese with Blueberry

Blueberries can bring amazing sweetness to a vegan cheese, which can be followed by a more balanced amount of tartness. 

This is a fruit that blends well in soft vegan cheeses such as a no-goat's cheese . Combined with a mild, creamy flavour it's almost a divine desert and definitely a vegan cheese you should be trying. Other flavours that work well with blueberry are vanilla and as lovely cheese makers in Tyneside have found, also a smoked cheese. 

You'll find that vegan cheeses with this fruit use dried blueberries or blueberry powder to create these wonderful cheeses and you can find vegan cheese with blueberries in them in our database here.

Pictured is the Catalyst Creamery Blueberry Lemon Roll Cultured Cashew Cheese

Vegan Cheese with Strawberry

Sweet in flavour and aroma, this delicious berry oozes luxury, just like strawberries and vegan whipped cream. 

Well strawberries in cheese is also a delight, especially as a cream cheese treat spread over a bagel. You'll find many different vegan cheeses, from cream cheese which are silky smooth, to hard vegan cheeses with strawberries and semi-soft vegan cheeses which will have either blended strawberries or pieces of strawberries used in their ingredients.

Strawberries in vegan cheese come in the form of strawberry powder, natural strawberry flavour and dried strawberries and you can see many vegan cheeses with strawberries here.

Pictured is Spero Strawberry Vegan Cream Cheese

Vegan Cheese with Fig

Figs have quite a complex nature of flavours. Deep, rich, tones, sweet and a little floral.  A fig cheese has not only a interesting mix in regards to taste but also texture too. 

You'll find a fig cheese to likely be a semi-soft cheese and one that can be enjoyed sliced on a cheese board and enjoyed on it's own or on a cracker. 

Fig in vegan cheese comes in the form of fresh figs, dried figs or semi sun-dried figs and you can see all vegan cheeses which contain fig in our database here.

Pictured is the Darë Vegan Cheese Balsamic Fig Plant-Based Wedge

Vegan Cheese with Apple

Mild yet sweet, apple is a fruit in vegan cheese that blends well due to it's flavour and texture. Apple can add that little extra acidity and crispiness. You will find many different types and textures of vegan cheese that contain apple, from semi-firm cheese to cream cheeses. 

Apples in vegan cheese come in the form of dried apples, apple juice, apple juice concentrate, apple extract, apple powder and you'll also find the rather tasty Bramley apples in some cheeses too. 

Here you can see all the vegan cheeses with apple in our database.

Pictured is the Happy Mouse Caramelised Onion

Vegan Cheese with Orange

We have found that orange is never the main attraction in a vegan cheese, more often used as a subtle hint or extra. 

It's zesty, fresh, vibrancy can lift the flavours of the cheese but not essentially pin-point you to the flavour of the orange with it's addition as small and subtle. You might find orange in a semi-firm cheese or a spreadable cheese. It may also be used as a natural way to create a more yellow to orange colour for some vegan cheeses too, so more of a visual addition than a flavour one.

Oranges in vegan cheese comes in the form of orange juice, orange peel, orange extract, orange pulp and orange essential oil and you can see all of the vegan cheeses with orange in them here.

Vegan Cheese with Cherry

Cherries in vegan cheese is quite unusual but we love this addition to the fruit vegan cheese options. 

Cherries are sweet, bold, rich and with a slight almond-ness to them. A vegan cheese with cherries is going to be a showstopper just waiting for a cheese board and to enjoy with friends.

Cherries in vegan cheese come in the form of dried cherries or cherry preserve and you can see vegan cheeses with cherries right here.

Vegan Cheese with Pear

Pears are juicy, with a smooth mouth feel texture which make them perfect for soft and semi-soft vegan cheeses.

Pears in a vegan cheese are of a luxury nature, It's sweet and almost spicy flavour and absorbancy of flavours also allows it to work well with spices from ginger to cardamon and nutmeg, or infused with alcohol such as rum or champagne. 

Vegan cheese that includes pears will either have fresh or dried pears and below you can see one of our favourites in the whole wide world, the Pips Pear and Ginger and you can see this and many others in our database right here.

Pictured is the Pips Pear & Ginger Vegan Cheese Cascheese

Vegan Cheese with Mango

This sweet, fleshy fruit is not a popular vegan cheese ingredient however it's creamy, fruity nature does bring an extra element to a cheese that makes it rather unique.

Mango in vegan cheese comes in the form of mango pieces, green mango and dried mango and you can see all those that use this interesting fruit in our database.

Pictured is the Tyne Chease Black Scorpion