plant food

plural plant foods

1. countableuncountableCommercially available nutrients intended to enhance the growth of plants, especially in gardens.

   Pour the nitrogen solution into the water and use it as plant food.

2. countableuncountableFood from plants.

   Vegans (sometimes called strict vegetarians). They do not eat meat or fish, or any animal products at all. This means no milk, cheese or eggs. They will eat only plant food.

   2016, Helen Buckland, Jacqui Keepin, WJEC GCSE Food and Nutrition, Hodder Education, →ISBN

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   Today, in India, vegetarians form a nonhomogenous group consisting of semivegetarians (plant food, dairy products, eggs, and fish), lacto-ovo vegetarians (plant food, dairy products, and eggs), and vegans (plant food only).

   2010, Manjeshwar Shrinath Baliga, Jason Jerome D’Souza, Raghavendra Haniadka, Rajesh Arora, “Indian Vegetarian Diet and Cancer Prevention”, in Ronald Ross Watson, Victor R. Preedy, editors, Bioactive Foods and Extracts: Cancer Treatment and Prevention, Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, →ISBN, page 68

   You’ll see below, when we talk about health benefits associated with plant foods, that replacing one kind of animal food with another is not really the best route to better health.

   2014, Carol J. Adams, Patti Breitman, Virginia Messina, Never Too Late to Go Vegan: The Over-50 Guide to Adopting and Thriving on a Plant-Based Diet, New York, N.Y.: The Experiment, LLC, →ISBN