What Ingredients in the Applewood Smoky Vegan Cheese

Applewood Smoky vegan cheese has been one of the best vegan cheese launches we've seen in years in terms of major brand supermarket releases.

Another supermarket shelf staple that is made with coconut oil, it melts well, but what ingredients makes up this legendary vegan cheese that everyone loves.

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Applewood Smoky vegan cheese has been one of the best vegan cheese launches we've seen in years in terms of major brand supermarket releases.

Another supermarket shelf staple that is made with coconut oil, it melts well, but what ingredients makes up this legendary vegan cheese that everyone loves.

The description of the cheese makes no suggestion as to what ingredients make up the cheese, but some of the highlights of the cheese are:

Smooth and creamy
Melts beautifully
Free from dairy, soya, lactose & gluten
Source of B12 & calcium
Vegan

But what it does do is show you what ingredients are not used in its production, and those are; dairy (well duh), soy and any gluten ingredients such as wheat as it is gluten free.

They also point out that it is a source of Vitamin B12 and Calcium.

Applewood Smoky Vegan Cheese Ingredients

Here are the ingredients of the Applewood Smoky vegan cheese;

water
coconut oil
potato starch
modified maize starch
yeast extract
salt
natural flavourings
carrageenan
calcium phosphate
smoke flavouring
calcium chloride
carotenes
paprika

As you can see, it is a coconut oil based vegan cheese, as this is used as it's main ingredient. followed by potato starch, modified maize starch and then everything that follows will make up it's nutritional profile as well as flavour.

Nutritional Profile of Applewood Smoky Vegan Cheese

As well as it's ingredients, we have included it's nutritional information as well.

Calories 305 calories /100grams

Fats 24.60 g / 100 grams

Fats saturated 20.90 grams/100g

Carbohydrates19.40 grams/100g

Fiber 0.00 grams/100g

Protein1.50 grams/100g

Salt per 1.80 grams/100g

Sugars 0.20 grams/100g

Vitamin B12 per 100 grams 2.70ug (microgram)

Calcium per 100 grams 282.00mg (milligram)

The majority of it's nutrition comes in the form of fats, saturated fats and this is because of the coconut oil used in the process of making this vegan cheese.

It has some carbohydrates, more than we would have originally guessed at nearly 20g per 100g of cheese.

Zero fiber, which isn't a surprise and small amounts of protein, salt and sugars.

There is also a healthy dose of vitamin b12 and calcium.

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