More Vegan Mince Pies: ASDA / Smart Price

Do we have a new champion of our vegan Mince Pie Taste Test? The choice of vegan mince pies at ASDA includes their regular deep-filled mince pies and their shallow-filled Smart Price offering. Top marks to ASDA for having a choice of animal-free pies... the only supermarket this year to do so. As usual, we tried the pies hot and cold, to see how they fared. 

Two more mince pie designs...not one of the many mince pies we've reviewed this year looked the same as any other.... it's amazing how many ways you can present pastry. Both of these pies look good, with nicely golden baked pastry. We tried each straight from the pack served cold, and also served hot with Alpro dairy-free cream.

ASDA Mince Pies

Excellent eaten cold, with nice crispy pastry and really flavoursome fruity mince. These pies also warm up very well, although the jammy fruit does tend to get blistering hot. The pastry is not too thick on these pies which is an advantage. We think these pies are a joint champion of our mince pie taste test.

Verdict: Great mince pies

Veganoo Score: ★★★★☆

ASDA Smart Price Mince Pies

A budget mince pie that disappoints from first bite. Too much pastry and too little filling. The pastry is very bland and stodgy. The fruity filling lacks flavour, and this isn't redeemed served hot. The fatty pastry isn't improved when warmed up either. 

Verdict: Stodge

Veganoo Score: ★★☆☆☆

So we have a new joint champion and a new holder of the wooden spoon. We'll update our main Taste Test post to include these results shortly.

Now never show us another mince pie again!

Footnote: Ingredients

Here are the ingredients panels from the packs we reviewed.

ASDA

ASDA Smart Price

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