A Flexitarian is someone who makes a dietary choice to eat mostly plant-based foods, but will occasionally eat meat.
Other Terms For Flexitarians
- Meat-eating vegetarian
- Part time vegetarian
- Semi-vegetarian
- Pescetarian: someone who eats fish, as well as non-meat products
- Pollotarian: someone who eats chicken, as well as non-meat products
Health Benefits
A flexitarian diet has, in studies, been shown to be as effective as a vegetarian diet in lowering the rates of many diseases. Flexitarianism can lower rates of:
What foods does somebody who says that they are flexitarian eat?(1 Answer)
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A flexitarian or Semi-vegetarianism is basically a vegetarian that allows an occasional meal of meats. They eat a vegetarian diet most of the time, such as fruits and ...
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Fast Facts
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Definition
At least 80% of calorie consumption comes from plants and grains
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2003
The American Dialect Society names "Flexitarian" the year's most useful word
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Earliest Printed Use
October 17, 1992, in the Austin American-Statesman
