Plant-Powered History
This Greek philosopher promoted kindness to animals and encouraged a vegetarian lifestyle over 2,000 years ago.
Who is Pythagoras?
This purple root vegetable is often confused with sweet potatoes but belongs to the morning glory family.
This tennis champion went vegan to help reduce inflammation and improve recovery.
Who is Venus Williams?
This breakfast item sometimes contains lard in the crust.
What is a pie crust?
This Indigenous grain, often mistaken for rice, was a traditional food of Great Lakes Native tribes and makes an earthy, naturally vegan Thanksgiving stuffing.
What is wild rice?
This 1944 British group coined the word “vegan” by taking the beginning and end of “vegetarian.”
What is the Vegan Society?
This knobby, alien-looking veggie is the bulbous stem of a plant in the cabbage family.
What is kohlrabi?
This Premier League and U.S. Women’s National Team player is known for her plant-based lifestyle and activism.
Who is Alex Morgan?
These chewy candies often contain gelatin.
These chewy candies often contain gelatin.
Instead of turkey, many vegans make this hearty mushroom-based main dish that mimics meaty texture through layered mushrooms and herbs.
What is a mushroom wellington?
This ancient Greek doctor, known as the “Father of Medicine,” encouraged simple plant-forward meals for health.
A: Who is Hippocrates?
Known for its licorice flavor, this vegetable has both crunchy bulbs and is feathery.
Known for its licorice flavor, this vegetable has both crunchy bulbs and feathery fronds.
This vegan triathlete completed five Ironman triathlons on five Hawaiian islands in under a week.
Who is Rich Roll?
Many types of this crunchy snack contain whey, making them non-vegan.
What are cheese-flavored chips?
This ingredient, often used to make vegan gravy silky and thick, was also a staple thickener used in early American colonial cooking.
What is arrowroot (or cornstarch)?
This classic Russian author adopted a mostly vegetarian diet and wrote essays arguing for compassion toward animals.
Who is Leo Tolstoy?
This spiky tropical fruit is a popular whole-food meat alternative when unripe.
What is jackfruit?
This vegan runner holds multiple course records at 100-mile races and famously survived on dates and nut butters during races.
Who is Fiona Oakes?
Some sugars (typically white sugar) are filtered through this non-vegan material, especially in the U.S.
What is bone char?
Sweet potatoes at Thanksgiving are often topped with vegan marshmallows because traditional marshmallows contain this non-vegan ingredient derived from animal collagen.
What is gelatin?
This 19th-century American reformer, known as the “Father of Vegetarianism” in the U.S., promoted plant-based feasting decades before Thanksgiving became a national holiday.
Who is Sylvester Graham?
This Peruvian root, also called “the lost crop,” comes in many colors and is used like potatoes.
What is oca?
This former NFL running back and Super Bowl champion went vegan to manage pain and reduce inflammation
Who is Arian Foster?
This ingredient in Worcestershire sauce is why it’s not naturally vegan.
What is anchovy?
This 19th-century American reformer, known as the “Father of Vegetarianism” in the U.S., promoted plant-based feasting decades before Thanksgiving became a national holiday.
Who is Sylvester Graham?