Dairy & eggs

Vegan alternatives to cheese

cashew cheese · nutritional yeast

Swap matrix

Use these instead

cashew cheese
nutritional yeast

Why the swap works

It brings the same savoury, salty depth that makes the original taste good.

The numbers

Swapping one kilo saves about 19 kg CO₂e. Do it once a week for a year and you avoid roughly 247 kg CO₂e — the same as driving a petrol car 1235 km.

Sources: Poore & Nemecek (Science, 2018), FAO, USDA FoodData Central, Mekonnen & Hoekstra (2011).

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