Plant-based means made entirely from plants. A plant-based diet.
It avoids the arguments that come with the word vegan, which is exactly why it spread. A plant-based label describes the ingredients and says nothing about how healthy anything is.
1adjectiveplant-basedMade entirely from plants.
“The plant-based option was the only thing left by eight o'clock.”
plant-based is a quality.
Popularised by the biochemist Colin Campbell as a term free of the ideological weight of vegan.
Popularized by American biochemist T. Colin Campbell as an alternative to ideologically connoted terms such as vegan.
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