{"id":13699,"date":"2019-06-12T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T14:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=13699"},"modified":"2019-06-05T13:23:16","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T17:23:16","slug":"definition-of-plant-based","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2019\/06\/12\/definition-of-plant-based\/","title":{"rendered":"DEFINITION OF PLANT BASED"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to a survey by the\nInternational Food Information Council Foundation, about one-third of people that heard of plant based diets\n(32%) say plant based is a vegan diet that avoids all animal products,\nincluding eggs and dairy. A similar percentage (30%) define it as a diet that\nemphasizes minimally processed foods that come from plants, with limited\nconsumption of animal meat, eggs and dairy. Twenty percent believe it to be a\nvegetarian diet that avoids animal meat. Eight percent say it is a diet in\nwhich you try to get as many fruits and vegetables as possible, with no limit\non consuming animal meat, eggs and dairy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>\nFor more information, see <em>International Food\nInformation Council Foundation 2019 Food and Health Survey<\/em><em>: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/foodinsight.org\/thanks-for-your-interest-in-the-ific-2019-food-health-survey\/\">https:\/\/foodinsight.org\/thanks-for-your-interest-in-the-ific-2019-food-health-survey\/<\/a><br>\n<br>\nFor more information on the meaning of plant based, see <br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2018issue4\/2018_issue4_plant_based.php\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2018issue4\/2018_issue4_plant_based.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a survey by the International Food Information Council Foundation, about one-third of people that heard of plant based diets (32%) say plant based is a vegan diet that avoids all animal products, including eggs and dairy. A similar percentage (30%) define it as a diet that emphasizes minimally processed foods that come from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13700,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13699\/revisions\/13700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}