India, Nov. 1 -- November 1 marks World Vegan Day. This observance day aims to bring awareness to the benefits of a plant-based lifestyle, spanning various reasons, from health, the environment, to animal welfare.

For the uninformed, a vegan diet is primarily plant-based while eliminating all forms of animal-based foods, such as dairy, eggs, and even honey. Often vegan diet may be confused with a vegetarian diet because of the overlapping focus on plant-based foods. But vegetarians do consume animal by-products like cow milk, cheese, yoghurt, and honey. But vegans look for alternatives to these by-products, such as oat milk, tofu or vegan cheese.

While both diets, vegetarian and vegan diets, focus on fruit, vegetables, grains and legume...