What makes a sandwich, burger, hot dog, or party spread? Condiments. It’s the secret sauce, the sour cream, and the ranch dressing that truly make your taste buds sing and tempt you to go back for another bite.
While these traditional dips, dressings, and spreads often contain sneaky animal ingredients, we’ve found exceptional vegan store-bought options.
Follow Your Heart
1 Follow Your Heart Vegenaise
Vegans have the self-proclaimed hippie founders of Follow Your Heart Café to thank for creating the original vegan condiment: Vegenaise. Developed in 1970 for the café’s Avocado, Tomato, and Sprouts Sandwich, this plant-based rendition of mayonnaise hooked customers who soon demanded it by the jar. While other brands have produced their own vegan mayo in the 50 years since its inception, Follow Your Heart’s Vegenaise is still the beloved original.
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Fly by Jing
2Fly by Jing Sichuan Chili Crisp
Crafted in Chengdu, China, this Sichuan Chili Crisp is everything you could ask for in a condiment—it’s spicy, crispy, savory, and bright. Incredibly versatile, chili crisp can be used as a topper in a variety of dishes, from savory noodles to vanilla ice cream scoops.
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Kite Hill
3Kite Hill Tzatziki
Hard to spell, easy to veganize. This thin, zesty yogurt sauce is made with almond milk, cucumbers, garlic, dill, and lemon juice. Try it drizzled over pita sandwiches, falafel, and Mediterranean-style grazing plates.
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House Party
4 House Party Cheesy Dip
Even good dairy-based queso is hard to find, but House Part nails this addictive cheese dip, and it does so with humble potatoes. Don’t ask how, just enjoy. Get your vegan nachos, tacos, and tortilla chips at the ready!
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5 Bachan’s Original Japanese Barbecue Sauce
Depending on where you grew up and where you live now, you likely have an attachment to a certain style of barbecue sauce. Many store-bought versions are accidentally vegan, and there’s a good chance the brand you love is animal-free, but some sauces do contain non-vegan Worcester sauce and/or honey. Check the label of your favorite brand or try out this balanced blend from Bachan.
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Follow Your Heart
6 Follow Your Heart Honey Mustard Dressing
Given the vegan chicken boom, it’s only appropriate to keep a bottle of vegan honey mustard on hand. This dressing is perfectly balanced with just the right amount of sweetness and kick. Dunk your favorite vegan chicken nuggets, drizzle over home-baked oven fries, enjoy with crunchy pretzels, or pour onto a massive salad for that iconic honey mustard taste.
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Trader Joe’s
7 Trader Joe’s Vegan Kale, Cashew, & Basil Pesto
Pesto should be vegan, but omnivore brands and chefs often can’t help but put parmesan where it doesn’t belong. This TJ’s pesto version is a safe, plant-based go-to whenever you don’t feel like getting out the food processor to make your own. For us, that’s most days.
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Forager Project
8 Forager Plant Based Sour Cream
Sour cream is like country music—people have very strong opinions about it. It’s a love it or hate it kind of condiment, but if you’re Team Sour Cream, this vegan product gets it just right. Rather buy it in store? Forager makes an excellent dairy-free rendition of this thick-and-tangy dip.
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Violife
9Violife French Onion Dip
If you’re using anything other than ruffled potato chips to scoop up this spread, you’re doing French onion dip wrong. The fried, ruffled variety is the only chip strong enough to stand up to this robustly rich and thick dip. No chips? Sturdy, raw vegetables and vegan wings are adequate vessels to transfer this onion-spiked dip from tub to mouth. We can’t get enough of Violife’s dips, and the French Onion is divine. Bring on the snacking!
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10Hidden Valley Plant Powered Ranch
Whether you drizzle it over vegan pizza or exclusively reserve it for salads, this herbaceous condiment is a vegan triumph. There are countless iterations of quality vegan ranch dressings and dips, but we have to highlight the brand that got us addicted in the first place: Hidden Valley. Yes, they make a vegan ranch now. It’s 2024, after all.
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11 Wildbrine Korean Kimchi
Known for its krauts and gut-friendly products, Wildbrine shows off its prowess in fermentation. The brand makes three different types of kimchi, but this Korean style is the most true to the fish sauce-laced pickled napa cabbage we grew to love in the pre-vegan days. Horseradish lovers, pick up the Miso Horseradish Kimchi—just be prepared, one bite will clear your sinuses.
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Earth Balance
12 Earth Balance Butter
With the exception of our failed homemade attempt, there has never been a vegan butter we haven’t loved. There are a plethora of options—salted and unsalted, palm oil-free, cashew-based, and oat-based—but when it comes to the everyday butter we know we can find at virtually any grocery store, it’s Earth Balance. No matter what brand you reach for, slather it on thick, because it’s bound to be good.
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Noble Made
13 Noble Made Medium Buffalo Sauce
When it comes to our vegan chicken wings, what matters most is not what the wings are actually made of, but the sauce they’re smothered in. Give an omnivore fried-and-battered tofu or a store-bought vegan chicken wing drenched in fiery, tangy buffalo sauce, and none will be the wiser.
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Primal Kitchen
14Primal Kitchen Organic Steak Sauce
Despite its namesake, this classic marinade is free of animal ingredients and adds a punch of flavor to veggies. Whether you’re whipping up grilled tofu skewers or trying out Gordon Ramsay’s eggplant steak recipe, don’t forget the power of the sauce.
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Watcharee
15 Watcharee’s Thai Peanut Sauce
Let’s clarify one thing: peanut sauce is not thinned-down peanut butter. The best peanut sauces are complex. They’re nutty, salty, citrusy, sweet, and contain a whisper of umami. Most bottled varieties achieve this flavor profile with honey and fish sauce, but Watcharee’s does it differently. The flavor is built with peanut butter, coconut milk, lime juice, tamarind, coconut sugar, curry paste, and a medley of other spices for a peanut sauce that rivals any animal-based contender.
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Bitchin’ Sauce
16 Original Bitchin’ Sauce
For more than a decade, Bitchin’ Sauce has been turning out almond-based dips and spreads that pair perfectly with everything from chips to tacos and burgers. While you can stock up on flavors like Chipotle, Bombay, Pesto, Buffalo, and Caramelized Onion, we think the original—bright with lemon and garlic—is hard to beat.
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17 Bragg Nutritional Yeast
Is there a more perfect vegan ingredient than nutritional yeast? It’s the secret to adding cheesy, umami-rich flavor to everything from omelets and frittatas to soups and dips. And if you haven’t tried it sprinkled over popcorn yet, you’re seriously missing out.
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Credo
18 Credo Oat Milk Spray Cheeze
If you have childhood memories of spraying canned cheese straight into your mouth, this is the condiment for you. Credo’s version delivers the same nostalgic taste and texture—only it’s dairy-free and free from artificial preservatives. It’s also delicious on crackers, hot dogs, nachos, or anything else you want to make extra cheesy.
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Eat Just
19Just Ranch
Eat Just may be best known for its vegan eggs, but its ranch dressing deserves a moment in the spotlight, too. Creamy and tangy, it’s the perfect pairing for salads, vegan wings, and more.
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Kite Hill
20 Kite Hill Dairy-Free Vodka Sauce
We’ve already established that Kite Hill makes a delicious tzatziki, but its dairy-free vodka sauce is just as impressive. Packed with rich, tomato-forward flavor, it’s the perfect option to toss with your favorite pasta when you need a quick and easy dinner.
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21 So Good Food Miso Mayo
Step aside, classic mayo—So Good Food’s miso mayo brings so much umami to the table, you may never go back. The brand offers several flavors, including Sweet Black Garlic and Spicy Red Pepper, but the Original is the bestseller thanks to its versatility.
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Pistakio
22 Pistakio Pistachio Spread
Peanut butter who? Pistakio’s Pistachio Spread is creamy, smooth, and endlessly versatile. Spread it on toast, use it as a dip for fruit or chips, or even swirl it into your morning iced latte for a nutty twist.
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23 Siete Salsa Cremosa
We love all of Siete’s vegan-friendly chips—but no chip experience is complete without a good dip. Luckily, the Mexican-American brand also makes delicious salsas, including this medium-spiced, slightly sweet, velvety Salsa Cremosa.
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Toom
24 Toom Original Garlic Dip
Is there any snack that wouldn’t be better with a rich, creamy garlic dip? We don’t think so. Stock up on Toom’s Original Garlic Dip for one of the boldest, most unapologetically garlicky options on the market. Seriously, this dip is pungent, but in the best way.
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25 Yellowbird Blue Agave Sriracha
Hot sauce fans, this one’s for you. Yellowbird’s Blue Agave Sriracha is slightly sweet, gently spicy (but not overpowering), and just a little garlicky. It’s delicious on everything from French fries to burgers to sushi rolls, so don’t be afraid to experiment.
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Tanya Flink is a Digital Editor at VegNews as well as a writer and runner living in Orange County, CA.
