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plant-based diet

plant-based diet

9 3.2
A way of eating mostly vegetables, fruits, grains, nuts and beans
  • noun
  • /plænt-beɪst daɪət/
translation icon : dieta basada en plantas
  • He wants us to experiment with new foods, eliminate processed foods, and have a more plant-based diet.
  • plant-based diet foods
  • whole-food plant-based diet
  • eating a plant-based diet

So let's say, OK Simon, I've been eating a plant based diet for six months or a year.

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Examples

  • A plant-based diet usually includes fruits, vegetables, nuts, and grains while limiting animal products.

  • I truly believe that a plant-based diet has the power to cure me for good.

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  • And three weeks after going through a whole food plant based diet, my vision came back.

  • And to do that by taking a very diverse plant based diet is the general way to do this.

  • How much longer does someone live if they had a plant-based diet?

  • So, I immediately just switched to a completely whole food plant-based diet.

  • Studies have shown that a plant-based diet is the equivalent of walking 4,000 more steps per day.

  • Humans are perfectly capable of eating a totally plant-based diet and maintaining superior health while doing so.

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  • According to the American Cancer Association, a plant-based diet is the best for the prevention of cancer and cardiovascular disease.

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  • People who eat heavily plant-based diets have lower rates of obesity, lower rates of type 2 diabetes, lower rates of cancer.

How Plant-Based

vegan
91 3.8
plant-based diet
9 3.2
vegetarian
116 1.9
omnivorous
4 5.6
meat-eating
3 2.1

Surface Forms

Morphology

plant-based + diet

The meaning 'a diet consisting mainly of foods derived from plants' is directly inferable from combining 'plant' (foods from plants) with the productive modifier 'based' (meaning 'originating from' or 'built on') plus 'diet'. This compositional pattern is common and cross-linguistically accessible, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words should be able to understand the MWE.

Etymology

The noun plant-based diet comes from the simple image of a diet built on plant foods, with based meaning 'built on'. Think of a plate of vegetables, grains and fruit as the base, and you can see why it means 'a way of eating mostly or only plants'.