I trust when something is “vegan” to mean it’s vegan, but “plant-based” means I’m checking the ingredients list to confirm that they know what they’re saying.
I’ve been to enough restaurants that refer to something as “plant-based”, but they just mean the burger patty (served with cheese and a ranch-based sauce!).
A “meat-based” patty isn’t 100% meat either. There might me onions, flour, egg, salt, spices, etc. “plant-based” is a term that just tells you “most of it is noch meat” and so you have to check the ingredients making it a pretty useless term.
Also fuck everybody who makes a meat-alternative-food that isn’t vegan because they added 1% of some shit…
Currently, I still eat meat, but in theory, am working towards a world where I’m at least vegetarian. I’d expect “plant based” to mean something that someone like me would eat. By default, I’d assume it wasn’t vegan and possibly not even vegetarian, and I might not even think to scrutinise the label if I was cooking a meal for vegetarian or vegan guests - I’d just pass over the product.
I trust when something is “vegan” to mean it’s vegan, but “plant-based” means I’m checking the ingredients list to confirm that they know what they’re saying.
I’ve been to enough restaurants that refer to something as “plant-based”, but they just mean the burger patty (served with cheese and a ranch-based sauce!).
A “meat-based” patty isn’t 100% meat either. There might me onions, flour, egg, salt, spices, etc. “plant-based” is a term that just tells you “most of it is noch meat” and so you have to check the ingredients making it a pretty useless term.
Also fuck everybody who makes a meat-alternative-food that isn’t vegan because they added 1% of some shit…
Sometimes it says “Plant-Based” because the bowl is vegan. Not the food, but the physical bowl it is in.
https://www.healthychoice.com/power-bowls-vegan-and-vegetarian/buddha-bowl
Serving bowl
made from
PLANT-
BASED
FIBER
Edit: If you are using an app that doesn’t do formatting correctly, “Serving bowl” is in sub-script, not scratched out.
Plant based sounds like an accurate description of something that isn’t meat based, but slso isn’t vegan.
If it was vegan they would call it vegan.
Currently, I still eat meat, but in theory, am working towards a world where I’m at least vegetarian. I’d expect “plant based” to mean something that someone like me would eat. By default, I’d assume it wasn’t vegan and possibly not even vegetarian, and I might not even think to scrutinise the label if I was cooking a meal for vegetarian or vegan guests - I’d just pass over the product.