Vegans eat plants, including vegetables, pulses, legumes, and dry fruits. Generally, vegan food does not contain meat, eggs, or dairy products. It was not produced explicitly for vegan markets but happens to be vegan.
A vegan does not eat animals and animal products, including milk, honey, cheese, and eggs.
A vegetarian diet is related to many advantages in the form of low calories & healthy packed nutritious content.
It includes potassium, magnesium, folic acid, vitamins (C and E), minerals, dietary fiber, fats, and many unsaturated phytochemicals.
Vegans faced limited bioavailability of zinc and iron. Micronutrients include vitamin D and B-12, calcium, and omega-3 fatty acids.
They need to consume foods fortified with iron in the form of grains.
Recently, it has been reported that a plant-based diet (intake of fruits and vegetables) reducing the risk of cancer (colorectal), diabetes, and cardiovascular is helpful in r disease (CVD).
Many food items, like cereals, biscuits, pasta bread, and some candies, are accidentally vegan and readily available in European countries.
What is Accidentally Vegan Food?
Food products made up of plants are considered ‘accidentally vegan.’ These foods lack animal meat (red or white), eggs, milk, and honey.
Fresh Veggies
Vegan foods include accidentally vegan cookies and biscuits, vegan chips, vegan candies and chocolate, vegan cereals, vegan cake mix, and vegan fast food. A label on food products guides the vegans to pick their choice of munching food items.
Accidentally Vegan Biscuits
Many accidentally vegan biscuits, sandwich biscuits, and cookies can be surprisingly found in local grocery markets and are very delicious.
They don’t include animal products and are packed with vegan protein.
Some of the brands are shown in the vegan-friendly list of biscuits;
- Oreos
- Planet Organic Triple Chocolate Protein Cookie (made from pea protein, almonds, chia seeds, brown rice protein, and more)
- Crawford’s Pink Wafers
- Doves Farm Lemon Zest Cookies
- Fox’s Ginger Crinkle crunch biscuits, Fox’s Dark Chocolate Chunkie cookies, Fox’s Party rings.
- Asda free from custard creams
- Lotus original caramel biscuits
- Lovemore Jammy Wheels
- Veganz Double sandwich biscuits
- Vegan Lemon Cake style Double biscuits
- Bourbon biscuits
- Ms. Molly’s Doves Farm Digestive biscuits
- Lotus Biscoff biscuits
- Nairn’s Oatcakes and Oat biscuits
- Nairn’s Stem Ginger Oat biscuits
- McVities Hobnobs Choc chip
- Mr. Kipling’s Blackcurrant and Apple pies and jam tarts
- Ritz Crackers, Belvita crunchy breakfast biscuits, Tesco Oaty Rounds
- Kookie Cat Salted Caramel Almond Cookie, Cat Vanilla and Choco Drops Cookie
- Super Pretzel Original, Smucker’s untrustable (peanut butter & grape jelly sandwich)
- Wheatable Biscuits by Peak Freens, Wheat Thins by Nabisco
- Chocolate chip cookies by Le Moulin Du Pivet
- Club Crackers by Keebler, Nabisco Triscuit
- Biona Organic Chocolate Chip and Orange Cookies
- Nutter Butter, Ginger Nut, Rich tea biscuits
- Pillsbury Crescent rolls
- Girls Scout Thin Mint Cookies
- Nature Valley crunchy granola bars.
- Accidentally vegan chips
Snacks like chips, fries, and onion rings fried in plant seed oil (not in palm oil) are accidentally vegan foods.
Super branded picks on Vegans
They include following items from supermarkets and even fast-food restaurants. Some of the best-branded picks are listed below;
- Starbucks BBQ Vegan Wrap with jackfruit and slaw
- Doritos Sweet Chilli, BBQ, and Lightly Salted flavors
- McDonald’s fries, Burger King fries
- Skips, Lays (original Salted flavor)
- Walkers Crisps comprises baked ready-salted, pickled onion, French fries ready-salted, squares salt and vinegar, and Worcester sauce flavor.
- Crinkles are simply sea salted, Chopsticks salt ‘n’ Vinegar flavor, caramelized onion, Sunbites sweet chili, Sunbites original, and Brown Sauce.
- Pringles are vegan-friendly. Original, Texas BBQ sauce, Sweet Chili, Smokey Bacon, and Paprika flavor, Cracker Jack (Popcorn) is perfectly vegan-friendly, and Frito (corn chips)
- Sun Chips (original whole grain), Stacy’s pita chips, Hula Hoops
- Ore-Ida Golden Crinkles (French fried potatoes) Simply Potatoes (Red potato wedges)
- Kettle Chips including Lightly Salted, Sea salt, Balsamic Vinegar and Black Peppercorn
- Potato Waffles are environment and vegan-friendly.
- Accidentally vegan sweets and chocolate
There are lots of candies and chocolates which are accidentally vegan. They can be found in hypermarkets and metro stores. Natural flavorings are pretty healthy and primarily gluten-free.
Fresh Strawberries
Many naturally vegan dark chocolates come with soy and lecithin. They contain healthy antioxidants and flavonoids and are 100% animal-free. Good quality dark chocolate consists of 100% cocoa solids and is surprisingly vegan-friendly.
Specialist vegan Chocolate
Specialist vegan Chocolate uses milk substitutes based on plant products.
Many chocolate brands and sweets vegans can eat:
- Jelly tots, Tesco Jelly Beans, Candy Kittens, Trebor soft Mints, Flying Saucer,
- Cola Bottles, Love Hearts, Tangy Worms by Jealous Sweets, Turkish Delight,
- Henry Goode’s Liquorice, Parma Violets by Swizzels, Sherbet Fountains, Asda/Sainsbury’s Lemon Sherbets, Sherbet Dip Dab (sugar Lolly)
- Starburst (chewy sweets) Skittles, Fox’s Glacier Mints
- Refreshers Chew Bar (vegan sweets from Swizzels) Kuhbonbon Vegan Caramels
- Freedom Confectionary Marshmallows, Fry’s chocolate cream,
- Lindt Excellence Dark Chocolate Bars, Green & Blacks varieties, Cadbury Bournville Plain Chocolate,
- Tesco Dark Chocolate Mint Thins, Elizabeth Shaw Mint Crisp Dark Chocolates
- Chocolate spreads of Nutella, Montezuma Chocolate (orange flavor)
- Moo-free; they use rice milk to supplement the chocolate
- Swedish fish (soft and chewy candy), Hotel Chocolate, Fruit by the Foot,
- Brach’s (Mandarin orange slices) Minute Maid soft Frozen Lemonade (Strawberry and Lemon flavors)
- Haribo Rainbow Gummi candy, Mackintosh sweets, Dots (assorted fruit-flavored gumdrops), Betty Crocker Fruit Rollups, Twizzlers (low-fat Licorice bar),
- Fun dip and Ghost dip are fruit-flavoured
- Sour Patch Kids
CONCLUSION
It is clear that vegans are thinner and usually enjoy a lower risk of serum cholesterol, Type-2 Diabetes, and Cardio Vascular Disease.
A vegan study usually includes a small number of subjects. Their health status is reasonable as compared to non-vegetarians.
This cautionary conclusion warns vegans to check food labels carefully, as it is challenging to find vegan-based items in grocery markets. Vegan food labels appear in green dots on all its products.
FAQs
Q. Why are avocados not vegan?
Avocados are not vegan because of the involvement of honey bee pollination in its large-scale cultivation. PETA has a strong stance against honey bees. They consider these insects to be factory-farmed animals like cows and chickens.
People following veganism usually avoid avocados for ethical reasons. The definition by the Vegan Society is, “Veganism does not accept all those food items that link to the cruelty of animals.” Still, Avocados are vegan-friendly if wild populations of bees pollinate them.
Q. Are McDonald’s fries vegan?
McDonald’s worldwide has different food standards, especially in terms of chips. Fries in U.S. McDonald’s are not vegan as they are dipped in beef flavored.
French fry suppliers add a small quantity of beef flavored to the oil in the pan during the frying process before shipping it to outlets; at the restaurant, they are fried to full and become vegan. In Asia, they are vegan. It is meat-free. They are 100 percent made from farm fresh potatoes.
Q. Why is broccoli not vegan?
Like avocados, almonds, and figs, broccoli is not vegan because migratory bees cultivate it. Broccoli is a calcium-rich vegetable. Commercial farming of these vegetables often includes bees. Bee hives at the back of a truck migrate from one farm to another. Vegans don’t eat animal products, so ethically, they don’t eat broccoli.
Q. Do vegans age poorly?
No. Vegans age slower, and it depends on their dietary intake. According to research, your skin will be wrinkle-free if you eat nuts, legumes, seeds, fruits, and vegetables rich in antioxidants.
Vivid colors in fruits and vegetables like cherries, pomegranates, citrus fruits, prunes, apples, spinach, cauliflower, berries, and even green tea are good sources of antioxidants. It also raises the carotenoid level in the skin and slows the aging process.
Olive oil can decrease wrinkles. Quick Aging is related to consuming refined sugar and meat products. Due to this, vegans live longer as their diet is free of animal products.
Q. Are vegans more attractive?
Yes. Eating vegan food increases blood circulation. Vegan eaters have brighter eyes, thicker hair, clearer skin, sharp features, lower fat levels, fast metabolic rate, and less puffiness in the body. The mental and physical health of vegans is attractive, according to research.
Scientifically, they are more compassionate about their goals and stand for their cause. Vegans have the power to control their habits and are self-disciplinary. Also, they care about their health and protect themselves from diseases. So they are more active as compared to meat eaters.
