Both plant-based diets offer health benefits, however, vegetarianism offers more protein-dense food options over vegan diets, along with calcium and vitamin D sources.

No there is nothing that vegans eat that vegetarians can't. This is because veganism is a category of vegetarianism that also excludes all animal products. So a vegetarian diet is no-meat. A vegan diet is no meat, no eggs, no dairy.

A vegetarian does not eat any animal flesh such as meat, poultry, or fish. A vegan is a stricter vegetarian who also avoids consuming dairy, eggs, and any other ingredients derived from animals. Vegetarian diets have reportedly been around since as early as 700 B.C.

A vegan diet excludes all meat and animal products (meat, poultry, fish, seafood, dairy and eggs), whereas a vegetarian diet excludes meat, poultry, fish and seafood. However, there are a few variations of a vegetarian diet that depend on whether you eat or exclude eggs, dairy and fish (see table below).