plant food

Noun

plant food (countable and uncountable, plural plant foods)

1. Commercially available nutrients intended to enhance the growth of plants, especially in gardens.
   • Pour the nitrogen solution into the water and use it as plant food.
2. Food from plants.
   • Today, in India, vegetarians form a nonhomogenous group consisting of semivegetarians (plant food, dairy products, eggs, and fish), lacto-ovo vegetarians (plant food, dairy products, and eggs), and vegans (plant food only).2010, Manjeshwar Shrinath Baliga, Jason Jerome D’Souza, Raghavendra Haniadka, Rajesh Arora, “Indian Vegetarian Diet and Cancer Prevention”, in Ronald Ross Watson, Victor R. Preedy, editors, Bioactive...
   • You’ll see below, when we talk about health benefits associated with plant foods, that replacing one kind of animal food with another is not really the best route to better health.2014, Carol J. Adams, Patti Breitman, Virginia Messina, Never Too Late to Go Vegan: The Over-50 Guide to Adopting and Thriving on a Plant-Based Diet, New York, N.Y.: The Experiment, LLC, →ISBN