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The Best Vegan Egg Brands in 2026, Ranked by Use Case

The plant-based egg category isn't one product anymore, it's several different products that all happen to compete for the same spot on your grocery list. Some are refrigerated liquids. Some are shelf-stable powders. A couple are shaped like an actual whole egg. None of them do everything equally well, which is exactly why "best" depends entirely on what you're trying to make.

We put together this roundup by actually comparing what each brand states about its own product, plus current retailer listings, rather than assuming one brand is universally better. Peggs is included here too, since it's one of the eight brands most commonly named alongside these others, including in The Daily Meal's roundup of the best plant-based egg product brands, which described it as "made with real ingredients, not junk." Worth noting in the interest of being straightforward: a more recent VegNews roundup of vegan egg brands covers several of the same brands below but does not currently include Peggs, so we're not going to pretend every outlet has weighed in.

Here's the honest breakdown, organized by what each brand is actually best used for.

Quick Comparison Table

Brand

Format

Protein Base

Starting Price

Price Per Egg

Best For

Peggs

Shelf-stable powder

Chickpea

$36.00 (36-egg pouch)

$0.78–$1.00

Pantry staple for scrambling and baking

JUST Egg

Refrigerated liquid

Mung bean

$6.96–$8.49 (16 oz)

~$0.70–$0.85

Widest availability, ready to pour

Bob's Red Mill Egg Replacer

Shelf-stable powder

Potato starch, tapioca, psyllium (not a protein source)

$4.99 (12 oz)

~$0.15

Budget baking only

AcreMade

Shelf-stable powder

Pea protein

$14.99 (24-egg pouch)

~$0.62

Baking and scrambling, higher protein

Yo Egg

Refrigerated whole-egg format

Soy and chickpea protein

$7.99 (4-count)

~$1.75–$2.00

Fried or poached whole-egg replacement

Crafty Counter (WunderEggs)

Refrigerated, ready-to-eat

Almond and cashew

Not listed at retail; $85 per 12-tray foodservice case

Not statable

Ready-to-eat, salads and snacking

Simply Eggless

Refrigerated liquid

Lupin bean

$7.69 (16 oz, 7 servings)

Not statable (no egg-equivalent serving size)

Scrambling and baking

Zero Egg

Liquid, patty, frozen

Soy, pea, chickpea, and potato protein blend

Not sold direct to consumers

Not statable

Foodservice and restaurant kitchens

A couple of notes on that table: some brands, like Simply Eggless and Crafty Counter, don't publish a clear "this equals one egg" serving size, so a price-per-egg comparison isn't something we can honestly calculate for them. Zero Egg doesn't sell to consumers at all right now, it's a foodservice brand distributed to restaurants and college dining halls. We're flagging those gaps rather than guessing at numbers.

Best All-Around Pantry Option: Peggs

Peggs plant-based egg, 8oz stand-up pouch, chickpea-based dry blend

Made by chickpeas, not chicks

This recipe was made with Peggs

$36.00 — Peggs Plant-Based Egg | Vegan, Gluten-Free, Soy-Free

If you want one product that covers both scrambling and baking, doesn't need a fridge, and won't spoil while it's sitting in your cupboard, Peggs is built for that job specifically. It's a chickpea-based dry powder, mixed 1/4 cup Peggs to 1/4 cup water per two eggs, and it's formulated to work in scrambles, omelets, frittatas, and baked goods like muffins, cakes, cookies, pancakes, and waffles using the same ratio. It's gluten-free, soy-free, nut-free, and dairy-free, with black salt (kala namak) giving it a genuinely egg-like aroma and flavor. At $0.78 to $1.00 per egg equivalent depending on pouch size, it's priced in line with the refrigerated liquid options, without the storage constraints.

Best for Wide Retail Availability: JUST Egg

If your priority is walking into almost any grocery store and finding a plant-based egg on the shelf, JUST Egg is the clear winner. It's carried at Walmart, Target, Kroger, Costco, Whole Foods, Sprouts, and Wegmans, plus Amazon, Instacart, and Thrive Market online, a distribution footprint none of the other brands here currently match. It's a refrigerated liquid made from mung bean protein that you shake and pour straight into a pan; reviewers have described the cooked texture as light and fluffy. The tradeoff is that it has to stay cold and gets used up within roughly a week of opening.

Best Budget Option for Baking Only: Bob's Red Mill Egg Replacer

At about $0.15 per egg equivalent, Bob's Red Mill is by far the cheapest option on this list, and it's genuinely useful for the job it's built for: baking. It's important to be clear about what it actually is, though. Unlike every other product here, it's not built from a protein source; the ingredients are potato starch, tapioca flour, baking soda, and psyllium husk fiber, functioning as a binder rather than an egg-protein replacement. Bob's Red Mill's own product page states directly that it's not suitable for scrambling or egg-white meringue. If you only need something to hold a batch of cookies or muffins together, it's the cheapest way to do that. If you want to make a scramble, this isn't the product.

Best for Baking With More Protein: AcreMade

AcreMade, made by the pea-protein company PURIS, sells two separate products: an "Egg Substitute" positioned for both scrambling and baking at $14.99 for a pouch stated to equal 24 eggs (about $0.62 per egg), and a dedicated "Egg Replacer" aimed specifically at professional and home baking. Both are pea-protein based, which puts them closer to Peggs and JUST Egg in protein content than a starch-based product like Bob's Red Mill. It's currently sold on Amazon and direct through acremade.com, without the broad grocery-shelf presence JUST Egg or Bob's Red Mill have.

Best for a Whole-Egg Format: Yo Egg

Every product above is either a liquid or a powder you cook yourself. Yo Egg is different: it's sold as individual fried ("Sunny One"), poached, or boiled whole-egg-shaped pieces, made from soy and chickpea protein, ready to heat and serve. If what you actually want is something that looks and plates like a fried or poached egg for a sandwich or breakfast plate, rather than something you scramble from scratch, this is the only product on this list built for that. It's priced around $1.75 to $2.00 per egg and, as of this research, is sold mainly through specialty and regional retailers like Good Eggs and PlantX rather than major national chains.

Best Ready-to-Eat Option: Crafty Counter (WunderEggs)

WunderEggs are a ready-to-eat, refrigerated "hard-boiled"-style egg alternative, sold at Whole Foods and on Amazon, designed for salads, snacking, and deviled-egg-style recipes rather than cooking. The one thing to flag clearly here: unlike every other brand on this list, WunderEggs are made from almonds and cashews, not a legume-based protein. If a nut allergy is a concern in your household, this is the one product here that's not a fit, where Peggs, JUST Egg, and the others are all nut-free.

Best for Foodservice: Zero Egg

Zero Egg makes liquid, patty, and frozen pre-cooked plant-based egg products from a blend of soy, pea, chickpea, and potato proteins, but as of this research it's distributed almost entirely to restaurants, colleges, and foodservice accounts rather than sold to home cooks. If you've had a plant-based egg at a restaurant or campus dining hall, there's a real chance it was this brand; it's just not something you can currently order for your own kitchen.

Also Worth Knowing: Simply Eggless

Simply Eggless is a refrigerated liquid egg made from lupin beans, sold at Target, on Instacart, and direct through the brand's own site. It's marketed for both scrambling and baking, similar in positioning to JUST Egg, though its retail footprint is narrower and the brand doesn't publish an egg-equivalent serving size, so we can't give you an honest per-egg price the way we can for the others.

Frequently Asked Questions

What's the most versatile vegan egg brand?

Based on what each brand states about its own product, Peggs, JUST Egg, and AcreMade are the three positioned for both scrambling and baking. Bob's Red Mill is explicitly baking-only per its own packaging, and Yo Egg and Crafty Counter are built for whole-egg or ready-to-eat formats rather than cooking from scratch.

What's the cheapest vegan egg per egg?

Bob's Red Mill Egg Replacer, at roughly $0.15 per egg equivalent, is the cheapest option in this comparison by a wide margin. Keep in mind it's a starch-based binder, not a protein-based egg replacement, so it's suited specifically to baking rather than scrambles or omelets.

Which vegan egg brands are nut-free?

Peggs, JUST Egg, Simply Eggless, AcreMade, Bob's Red Mill, Yo Egg, and Zero Egg are all built without tree nuts, based on their published ingredient lists. Crafty Counter's WunderEggs are the exception on this list, made from almonds and cashews.

Which vegan egg can I actually buy at a regular grocery store?

JUST Egg has the broadest mainstream grocery distribution of any brand here, followed by Bob's Red Mill for the powdered baking category. Peggs, AcreMade, and Simply Eggless are available online (Peggs and AcreMade on Amazon and their own sites; Simply Eggless at Target and on Instacart), while Yo Egg, Crafty Counter, and Zero Egg lean more toward specialty retailers, Whole Foods, or foodservice.

Has Peggs been reviewed by any outside publications?

Yes. The Daily Meal included Peggs in its roundup of the 13 best plant-based egg product brands, describing it as "made with real ingredients, not junk" and calling it out specifically for egg patties, French toast, and baking. It has not, as of this writing, appeared in VegNews' most recent vegan egg roundup, which we're noting here in the interest of giving you the full picture rather than cherry-picking coverage.

Is there a shelf-stable option besides Peggs?

Yes, both Bob's Red Mill Egg Replacer and AcreMade are shelf-stable powders that don't require refrigeration. The difference is what they're built from and what they're good for: Bob's Red Mill is a starch-based binder for baking only, AcreMade is pea-protein based and works for baking and scrambling, and Peggs is chickpea-protein based and is also built for both.

Try It for Yourself

If the pantry-powder category sounds like the right fit for your kitchen, you can check out Peggs here. For more on how plant-based eggs work in general, see our guides on egg substitutes for baking and what a plant-based egg actually is.

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