plant-based

The English word “plant-based” has 2 meanings listed here.

adjective

Based on plants; especially, of a diet, consisting mostly or wholly of foods derived from plants; vegan.
Made from plants other than the traditional source.

Popularized by American biochemist T. Colin Campbell as an alternative to ideologically connoted terms such as vegan.

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