The New Zealand Dairy Free Awards
Celebrating excellence in the dairy-free plant-based alternatives.
The 2024 Dairy Free Awards.
The future of milk products is plant-based. We would like to see the government helping farmers to diversify and transition to growing plants over the coming decade. It’s time for New Zealand to once again become global leaders. We can do this, we can all work towards a horticultrual-based economy!
We will meet our Paris Agreement goals if we invest in our land wisely, grow the right crops in the right environment and increase our organic inputs.
Welcome to our fourth People’s Choice Awards ~ here to celebrate FebNoDairy are our Dairy Free Awards!
We invite you to make your selections amongst a host of exciting and delicious plant-based dairy alternatives across 6 different categories.
You have only until 19th FebNoDairy to get your votes in. We placed several call outs on our socials for nominations and we emailed a lot of different companies to get our nominees down to those in the survey (see below).
We encourage you to give an answer to each of the categories, just to get your feedback on which are THE BEST dairy free ice creams, butters, yoghurts, creams, desserts, and milks. This is your chance to let your favourite companies know which are your preferred products!
We are delighted that every year there are more products on the market and new companies making seriously innovative delights. This year we are excited to see Eat Kinda with their incredible ice-cream made from cauliflower! Yep, you read that right! An ice-cream, made using cauliflowers! All the ugly ones too, that no one else wants to eat, so they are a great waste-saving benefit too. If you’ve recently purchased a plant-based ice-cream from Hell Pizza, you have probably already tried it and wondered how this is even possible!
We welcome Little Liberty into the awards, with their tasty ice-cream flavours. Now we can enjoy Little Liberty, Little Lato and Little Island! We have added in those yummy Alpro desserts, the 4 packs you see in the fridge section of supermarkets 
Don’t see your favourite here? Write to Amanda@vegansociety.org.nz to let her know your suggestion for next year’s awards.
Then Kiwis will be encouraged to vote for the winners. Voting comes during Feb No Dairy.
THE CATEGORIES
Butter/Spreads
Cream
Desserts
Ice Cream
Milk
Yoghurt
Dairy Free Awards Winners 2024
Ice Cream
Winner by just 4 votes is Magnum Almond
Runners up were Tiptop Boysenberry Trumpet, along with Duck Island Salted Chocolate Brownie
Plant Based Milk
Winner is Boring Oat Barista, who also won last year.
Runner up is Vitasoy Oat.
Butter
Winner is Vutter Original taking half the votes!
Runner up is also Vutter with their Garlic blend
Plant Based Desserts
Equal Winners are Alpro Chocolate 4 pack dessert and Alpro 250ml carton of custard
Equal Runners up are Sara Lee Joy Blueberry Cheesecake and Sara Lee Joy Key Lime Cheesecake
Plant Based Yoghurts
Winner is Raglan Food Company Vanilla Bean
Runner up is Raglan Food Company Raspberry
Cream
Winner is Angel Food Sour Cream
Runners up are Alpro Single Soy Cream and Little Island Cashew Cream
DISCOVER DAIRY FREE DELICIOUSNESS!
If you haven’t tried Dairy Free it’s never too late – why not kick off with our 7 day Dairy Free Challenge? Receive daily email support full of tips and recipes!
Check out our Dairy Alternatives page and find your favourite.
