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Vegetarian Food Menu |
Food is a collective name for edible products obtained from nature
(flora and fauna). The meaning of food is to exercise biological
support for human organism. It provides the whole range of nutritive
elements necessary to maintain a normal course of physiological
processes. There is a great variety of food products containing
different amount of nutritive elements, such as proteins, fats,
carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. These nutrients are the main
subject to characterize food products and mark them as more or less
important for human health.
Food is divided into animal and vegetable products. Animal products are
meat, fish flesh, sea fauna (crabs, shrimps,
etc.), animal-derived
products (milk, eggs) and animal byproducts (gelatin, etc.). This type
of products is rich in proteins; it is excluded from most diets and
vegetarian food menu.
Vegetable food (also referred as vegetarian
food) consists of
fruits, vegetables and mushrooms. There are several types of vegetarian
food diets: milk
diet (allows consumption of milk, cheese, yogurts, etc.); eggs diet
(permits eggs); and milk-eggs diet (the combination of the previous
two).
Vegetarian food is an
important subject of food, health and recreational industries. Modern
restaurants may offer special meals, for example Indian vegetarian food
menu.
Fitness coaches may recommend healthy
vegetarian food menu to their clients. Travelers are given
opportunity to request a vegetarian
food menu when booking a transport ticket or a hotel package.
Individuals willing to keep to a vegetarian diet due to any reason are
offered a great number of vegetarian food and wine recipes
widely available as printed publications and on the Internet. |
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