Download Vegetarian food

Vegetarian cuisine
• Vegetarian cuisine refers to food that meets vegetarian
standards by not including meat and animal tissue products.
For lacto-ovo vegetarianism (the most common type of
vegetarianism in the Western world), eggs and dairy products
such as milk and cheese are permitted. For lacto
vegetarianism, the earliest known type of vegetarianism
(recorded in India), dairy products such as milk and cheese are
permitted.
• The strictest forms of vegetarianism are veganism and
fruitarianism, which exclude all animal products, including
dairy products as well as honey, and even some refined sugars
if filtered and whitened with bone char.
Probably one of the most annoying questions a
vegetarian gets is, "So what do you eat?"
• Types of vegetarian diets
• When people think about a vegetarian diet, they typically think
about a diet that doesn't include meat, poultry or fish. But
vegetarian diets can be further categorized into three types:
• Vegan diets exclude meat, poultry, fish, eggs and dairy
products — and foods that contain these products.
• Lacto-vegetarian diets exclude meat, fish, poultry and eggs, as
well as foods that contain them. Dairy products, such as milk,
cheese, yogurt and butter, are allowed in a lacto-vegetarian
diet.
• Lacto-ovo vegetarian diets exclude meat, fish and poultry, but
allow eggs and dairy products.
• Some people follow a semivegetarian diet — also called a
flexitarian diet — which is primarily a plant-based diet but
includes meat, dairy, eggs, poultry and fish on occasion or in
small quantities.
• Vegetarian diet
pyramid
• A healthy diet takes
planning, and a food
pyramid can be a
helpful tool. The
vegetarian pyramid
outlines food groups
and food choices that,
if eaten in the right
quantities, form the
foundation of a
healthy vegetarian
diet.
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Foods used in vegetarian cuisine
Food regarded as suitable for vegetarians typically includes:
Cereals/grains: maize, hempseed, corn, wheat, rice, barley,
sorghum, millet, oats, rye, triticale, buckwheat, fonio, quinoa;
derived products such as flour (dough, bread, pasta, baked
goods).
Vegetables (fresh or pickled); derived products such as
vegetable fats and oils
Fruit (fresh or dried)
Legumes: beans (including soybeans and soy products such as
tempeh, tofu, soy milk, and TVP), chickpeas, peas, lentils,
peanuts)
Tree nuts and seeds
Spices and herbs
Other foods such as seaweed (however seaweed is considered
inedible by some strict vegetarians for the same reason it can be
considered as non-kosher by some: the possibility that various
tiny animals may be found adhering to it).Food suitable for
several types of the vegetarian cuisine:
Dairy products (milk, butter, cheese (except for cheese
containing rennet of animal origin), yogurt (excluding yogurt
made with gelatin), etc.) – not eaten by vegans and pure ovovegetarians
Eggs – not eaten by vegans and pure lacto-vegetarians
Honey – not eaten by most vegans
Created by Dicianu Andreea