Types Of Vegetarians

With the popularity of vegetarian eating on the rise, it is inevitable that vegetarian diets will become categorized into various types. After all, people are not robots – they have different tastes and ideas of what such diets should be.

Vegetarians comes from all walks of life – professional sports, businessmen, housewives, you name it. While there is no official statistics, my guess is that most are free thinkers – they are not always going to be saddled into a strict regimen for their diet plan.

Therefore, vegetarian diet plans are all over the place in terms of the specific foods that are included. However, some attempts have been made to define broad categories or types of vegetarian diets.

The two main types are Vegetarian Lacto Ovo and Vegan. While these are broad definitions, there are many variations in between.

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Types of Vegetarians

A “vegetarian” is defined as someone who does not eat meat, poultry, or fish. In contrast, those who include both plants and animalsin their diet are called “omnivores” or “nonvegetarians.” The two most common subclasses of vegetarians are lacto-ovo or vegan.

1. Lacto-ovo VegetarianLacto-ovo vegetarians avoid all animal flesh, but do use eggs (ovo) and dairy products (lacto). Some people are simply lacto-vegetarians, using dairy products but not eggs, and others are ovo-vegetarians, using eggs but not dairy products.

2. Vegan (pronounced vee-gun or vee-gan) Vegans avoid all products of animal origin, including eggs, dairy foods, gelatin (made from the bones and connective tissue of animals), and honey (the product of bees). Vegans avoid animal products not only in their diet but in every aspect of their lives. They may shun leather goods, wool and silk, tallow soaps, and other products made with animal ingredients.

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