Great VEGAN's Choice
Category Objectives
To encourage and reward production, retail and food service companies that design, offer and control high standard, innovative and exceptional Vegan food products and meals (contains no animal-derived ingredients, measures in place to avoid cross-contamination during production and GMO-free). Encourage and reward companies designing and producing plant-based meat, dairy, poultry and fish analogs that are made to improve the nutritional functionality of the product by containing high protein with essential amino acids and low-fat content which makes these products good for human health and more friendly to our plannet.
Category Eligibility
All production, retail and food service companies that design, offer and control high standard, innovative and exceptional Vegan / plant based analoges products and meals throughout the world are eligible.
FEA Pylon Served
- Better design
- Better production
- Better nutrition
- Better environment
- Better life
Category Evaluation Criteria
- Describe your Vegan product, meal or concept considered to be exceptional
- Refer to ingredients and production methods
- What non VEGAN products do you handle?
- Describe measures in place to avoid cross contamination
- Describe your no contamination evaluation plan (product analysis, environmantal control, etc)
- Point out your award deserving Vegan food, meal or concept strong points
- Describe the way you communicate, brand and market your Vegan products
- Highlight sensory tests made for plant based analogues
- Refer to public and influencers opinion for your Vegan products (articles, comments in social media and reviews in evaluation platforms like Google My Business, Yelp, TripAdvisor, OpenTable, etc)
- Refer to any distinctions you have achieved or goals you have accomplished till now

This FEA category has a Sponsor
To the Gold Winners of the category, TÜV HELLAS (TÜV NORD) offers the free participation of one of their executives in a seminar of their choice worth up to €700/participation. The Gold Winners can choose any training program they want from the more than 120 seminars of the organization.
The complete program with the dates and Technical Descriptions of the seminars can be found at the following link: Calendar of Seminars – Education | TÜV HELLAS (tuv-nord.com)
TÜV HELLAS is a certification and inspection body, 100% subsidiary of the German TÜV NORD Group. It has been active in Greece since 1987, providing Third Party Inspection-Certification services, for all types of enterprises, in both the private and public sector, in the fields of Technology, Quality, Security, Energy, and the Environment.
TÜV HELLAS has become a leader in the field of Inspection-Certification, offering services with prestige, reliability, visibility and added value. It has managed to link the Organisation’s name with the largest infrastructure and development projects in our country, contributing through its services to the quality and safety of products and constructions.
TÜV HELLAS is responsible for coordinating and planning TUV NORD’s development strategy in the Balkans and the Southeastern Mediterranean (Cyprus, Egypt, Albania, Bosnia – Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Croatia, Lebanon, Libya, Romania, Serbia, Turkey, FYROM).
TÜV HELLAS operates two subsidiaries, TÜV CYPRUS and TUV Egypt in Cyprus and Egypt respectively. Recently, it started to operate at international level; with the collaboration of the 70 subsidiaries of the TUV Nord Group and its network of experienced inspectors, TUV HELLAS can offer its services in the Oil & Gas sector worldwide.