Vegan and vegetarian diets: What's the difference?

Plant-based diets have been quite fashionable for the past few years and many celebs have announced time and again that they are either 'vegan' or 'vegetarian.' While both these diets include plant foods, such as fruits, vegetables, legumes and whole grains, what's the difference between the two? Also, do its specifications suit everyone? Here's what you should know: What's a vegan diet? A vegan diet is an entirely plant-based diet. It doesn't include any meat and animal products.

So, no meat, poultry, fish, seafood, eggs, dairy or honey. A vegetarian diet is a plant-based diet that generally excludes meat, poultry, fish and seafood, but can include animal products. So, unlike a vegan diet, a vegetarian diet can include eggs, dairy and honey.

But you may be wondering why you've heard of vegetarians who eat fish, vegetarians who don't eat eggs, vegetarians who don't eat dairy, and even vegetarians who eat some meat. Well, it's because there are variations on a vegetarian diet: a lacto-ovo vegetarian diet excludes meat, poultry, fish and seafood, but includes eggs, dairy and honey. An ovo-vegetarian diet excludes meat, poultry, fish, seafood and dairy, but includes eggs and honey.

a lacto-vegetarian diet excludes meat, poultry, fish, seafood and eggs, but includes dairy and honey. A pescatarian diet excludes meat and poultry but includes eggs, dairy, honey, fish and seafood. A flexitarian, or semi-vegetarian diet, includes eggs, dairy and honey and may include small amounts of .