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Flexitarianism is a semi-vegetarian diet comprising mainly vegetarian food. Here’s looking at other new age vegetarian diets..

Updated on: Oct 6, 2008, 19:44:37 IST
Hindustan Times | By , Mumbai
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Flexitarianism is a semi-vegetarian diet comprising mainly vegetarian food, it makes occasional exceptions for social, pragmatic, or nutritional reasons. This new age diet is making waves.

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Here’s looking at other new age vegetarian diets..

Lacto-ovo-vegetarian diet: it doesn’t include beef, pork, poultry, fish, shellfish or animal flesh of any kind, but has dairy and egg products.

Veganism: this diet seeks to exclude the use of animals for food, clothing, or any other purpose.

Fruitarianism: a form of veganism that is limited to eating ripe fruits .

Raw veganism: this diet combines veganism and raw foods. It excludes all food of animal origin, and cooked above 46 degrees Celsius. A raw vegan diet includes raw vegetables and fruits, nuts and nut pastes, grain and seeds, plant oils, sea vegetables, herbs, and fresh juices.

Sproutarianism: it consists mainly of sprouted seeds, a form of raw food.

Saatvik diet: also referred to as a yoga diet or sentient diet, it includes water, fruit, cereal, bread, most vegetables, beans, nuts, grains, milk, milk derivatives and honey.

Semi-vegetarian: this diet excludes red meat.

Pollotarianism: a semi-vegetarian diet in which a person only eats vegetables, fruits, and poultry meat (particularly chicken), but does not consume meat from fish or mammals.

Pescetarianism: it is a dietary choice in which a person, known as a pescetarian, eats any combination of vegetables, fruit, nuts, beans and fish or invertebrate seafood.

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