Vegetarian diet refers to diet that does not contain meant, fish, and other animalistic food. Vegetarian diet is divided into 2 types according to its restrictions over food choices:
Pure vegetarian diet is to consume non-animal food like meat, fish, milk, and eggs.
Custard vegetarian diet is to consume non-animal food except milk, eggs, and food produced from milk and eggs.
General principles:
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Widely use or select diverse unprocessed foods to complement protein deficiency we need as nutrition. For example, cook yellow soy beans with grains of rice because yellow soy bean is a kind of economical high quality protein sources.
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Milk and eggs are not only top quality protein but also good sources for vitamin B12. Pure vegetarian eaters should intake vitamin B12 as well.
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Select multiple vegetable and fruit for your diet, so they could supply numerous vitamins and minerals needed for our body. Most citrus fruits contain rich vitamin C to assist iron absorption.
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Watch out for the calorie intake of nuts related food; reduce intake of non-nutritional but high caloric food like candy and soft drink to prevent obesity.
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There should be changes of your diet; give yourself plenty of food to select from; stay nutrition-balanced; and avoid sticking to certain types of food.
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Pure vegetarians should contain plenty of vitamin supplements and avoid over exposing to sun in order to enhance absorption of high calcium.
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Avoid excessive ingestion of high oil, high-salt processed vegetarian products, like tofu-made ham, sausage, or related products; consume natural foods.
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Do not consume excessive fat instead have less high-temperature fried foods.
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