What’s the best vegan cheese for vegan pizza?

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My son has allergies to milk, eggs, nuts and sesame. So I’m looking for vegan options for him. Recipes are welcome too. Thanks.

Violife shreds is popular, around £3 use sparingly otherwise the "cheese" can be a bit much!
Asda have their own brand shreds which is ok
Cathedral city is my friends first choice, but I think it's rank!
I find lots of vegan pizza don't really use a lot of "cheese"
A lot is trial and error with vegan products!

I really like the cathedral city plant based cheese, it smells a bit gross but I think it tastes nice, melts reasonably well too

Can he have goats cheese? Alot of dairy allergy sufferers are fine with goats cheese, so may be an option for your son?

Or a vegan pesto base would work, and wouldn't need any cheese with it, maybe mixed with some soya cream?

I am afraid there isn’t one. They are all shite and taste like margarine.
I am vegetarian and tried vegan cheese after cancer treatment made me lactose intolerant.
Now I have found lactose free cheese so can eat that thankfully.

None and it's depressing. My daughter has allergies. Hoping she outgrows them

100% cathedral city - it's the most similar to cheddar. After years of trying everything, this is the best x I've also found the vegan fetas are good to put a few on as they melt and just taste creamy like mozzarella (not like feta!). So you get the cheese taste and the creamy extra combo :)

Try non cheese toppings - google recipes for onion topped pizza for example, or as someone mentioned vegan pesto and then vegetables.

Violife.

If you grate it into some dairy free milk -Alpro Soya- it thickens up into a nice cheese for nachos.

Nutritional yeast is cheesy too. Great parmesan cheese substitute for him. Also delicious in soups and on salads. My kids are crackers about it!

Lidl do a good parmesan style but it's use by is too quick so I store on the freezer!
I had a goodfellas pizza the other day that was vegan it's was falafel and spinach, it was ok but the spinach made it a bit wet in places

DH once had to cut out dairy for a few months and came to the conclusion that no cheese is better than vegan cheese - and we tried a lot of them to be sure. If your son has never been a cheese eater he might be more open to it, but for pizza I would suggest it's worth doing a melt test as we never found anything that actually behaved like cheese.

Agree with no cheese is better than vegan cheese, they're all awful.

This is the one they use at Pizza Express https://www.mozzarisella.co.uk/where-to-buy/ which is good and not disgusting like many vegan cheeses.

No cheese is better than supermarket vegan cheese. There are some great cultured nut cheeses, mostly not from supermarkets. Though Waitrose do Mouldy Goat brand and Fauxmagerie at some stores.

Honestly Tasty shamenbert (Camembert style) is good and available at some M&S and Ocado.

There is a vegan board on Mumsnet which might be helpful for you

Mouse’s Favourite is good, I am Nut Ok brand is good, but both aged cashew cheeses, so not cheap.

Julienne Bruno is really nice (sorry for keep bobbing back!)

Cathedral City plant based is the most tolerable I've found (I'm veggie but lactose intolerant and trying to be mostly plant based)
It tastes better if you haven't had proper cheese for a while

Not what you were asking but perhaps interesting - DH is vegan and we have tried several different pizza chain offerings whilst eating out. He claims that Prezzo vegan pizza is more than passable, and actually very nice indeed.

Don’t listen to the people saying all vegan cheese is terrible, violife shreds are delicious. Can’t speak to the other brands mentioned as I am not in the U.K. violife shreds are so tasty you can just eat them out of the bag 😋

Some other vegan cheeses are more the type that you have to melt and you can’t eat them raw. The pesto idea is good too but just on its own. i also used to order pizza without cheese and drizzle chili oil on it.

Same allergies as my son. Just remember he has never tasted real cheese and so has no comparison! My son loves the cathedral city dairy free cheEse. He also agrees with the poster above... he loves prezzo pizza!