Glossary

A botanical fruitarian eats a diet of botanical fruits which:

• includes culinary fruits such as melons, citrus, culinary berries, stone fruit and bananas
• includes the culinary vegetables which are also botanical fruits such as tomatoes, cucumbers, avocados and peppers
• excludes the culinary vegetables which are not also botanical fruits such as root vegetables and leafy green vegetables
• may include culinary nuts and culinary seeds

Strict botanical fruitarians try to avoid killing plants for food, often claiming to eat botanical fruits with the intention of spreading the seeds, so new plants can grow.

Strict botanical fruitarians avoid pulling up root vegetables such as carrot or beetroot, and often avoid eating leafy green vegetables such as lettuce and celery, even though individual stalks of celery or outer leaves of lettuce can be harvested without harvesting or killing the entire plant.

There are very few long term botanical fruitarians.

On the other hand, there are a much larger and growing number of long-term fruit-based raw vegans which offers evidence of its success.