The phrase "an appealing substitute" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing an alternative option that is attractive or desirable in comparison to something else.
Example: "For those looking to reduce their sugar intake, honey can be an appealing substitute for traditional sweeteners."
Alternatives: "an attractive alternative" or "a desirable replacement".
They also can be functionally and cosmetically appealing substitutes for eyeglasses to treat myopia (nearsightedness) and other visual defects.
Reading has become a strenuous exercise, and since movies, television and Monarch Notes require little effort, they have become appealing substitutes.
Furthermore, steel slag which is mostly disposed in landfills as waste material could be an appealing option as substitute of natural aggregates for asphalt concrete (AC) production because of its adequate affinity with asphalt binder.
Rose orcinol O-methyltransferase (OOMT) displays enzymatic properties, which makes it an appealing candidate to substitute VvROMT in the combined strategy to enhance the pterostilbene production level by engineered grapevine cells upon elicitation.
The energy absorption properties of composite materials can be tailored, thus making them an appealing option as a substitute of more traditional materials in applications where energy absorption is crucial.
Bladder tissue engineering appears as an appealing alternative through development of biological substitutes, which could restore structural and functional aspects of damaged tissues and organs.
Thus, an appealing alternative would be to obtain the epithelial substitutes from autogenic iPSCs.
And the products themselves are hardly substitutes for each other; one is all no-frills efficiency, the other more an appealing luxury, priced at $500 and up.
Substituting venous blood pH for arterial pH in the evaluation of dyspneic patients is an appealing notion, but one that requires testing in multicenter, prospective clinical studies.
Hardly an appealing image.
