The health food movement known as raw foodism promotes a mostly vegan diet of raw fruits, vegetables, and grains prepared in various ways, including juicing, food dehydration, sprouting, and other methods of preparation that do not heat the food above.

Evidence from the 12th century illustrates commoners consumed a diet mostly of fish and shellfish, such as shrimp, clams, oysters, abalone, and loach, while sheep and hogs were reserved for the upper class.

Analysis of the grains present revealed his diet to be mostly of cereals.

From the 1950s to 1970s a large number of Italians, Spaniards and Portuguese immigrated, settling mostly in the industrial district of Renens and transforming the local diet.

Some of the earliest origins of minestrone soup pre-date the expansion of the Latin tribes of Rome into what became the Roman Republic and later Roman Empire, when the local diet was " vegetarian by necessity " and consisted mostly of vegetables, such as onions, lentils, cabbage, garlic, fava beans, mushrooms, carrots, asparagus, and turnips.

Potassium is found in especially high concentrations within plant cells, and in a mixed diet it is mostly concentrated in fruits.

In confinement pigs are fed mostly corn and soybean meal with a mixture of vitamins and minerals added to the diet.

In some regions, meat, which was mostly eaten only at wedding ceremonies or during the Kurban Bayramı ( Eid ul-Adha ) as etli pilav ( pilaf with meat ), has become part of the daily diet since the introduction of industrial production.

The diet of hippos consists mostly of terrestrial grasses, even though they spend most of their time in the water.

Another species of chimpanzee, the bonobo, has also been observed to engage in group hunting, but eats a mostly frugivorous diet.

In India, split pigeon peas ( toor dal ) also called Togari bele in Kannada are one of the most popular pulses, being an important source of protein in a mostly vegetarian diet.

Their diet consists mostly of ungulates, followed by primates, primarily monkeys of various species.

# Intestinal bloating – most intestinal gas is produced from carbohydrates in the diet, mostly those that humans cannot digest and absorb.

Daphnia can be kept easily on a diet of yeast, but this occurs mostly in laboratories or controlled environments.

The Monsú people's diet was based mostly on shellfish and fresh and salt-water fish.

He had a sparse diet that consisted mostly of vegetables and drinking vasts amount of water, and was not robust enough to prevent the effects of being bled upon the advice of various doctors throughout his life.

Their preferred diet is primarily deep-water squid, but also benthic and benthopelagic fish and some crustaceans, mostly taken near the sea floor.

On the eve of the Great Famine it had risen to 8 million, mostly living on ever-smaller farms and depending on the potato as a staple diet.

Many freegans get free food by pulling it out of the trash ( bins ) a practice commonly nicknamed " dumpster diving " in North America and " skipping " or " bin diving " in the UK, as well as " bin raiding " or " skipitarianism " ( so called because the person's diet mostly involves eating out of a skip ).

Both parents feed the nestlings a diet of mostly insects until fledging occurs in 30 days.

Although the Brown Pelican eats mostly fish, an occasional amphibian or crustacean may supplement the diet.

Critics have argued that if hunter-gatherer societies failed to suffer from " diseases of civilization ", this was mostly due to reduced calories in their diet, shorter average lifespans, or a variety of other factors, rather than some special diet composition.

In general, the Piciformes are insectivorous, although the barbets and toucans mostly eat fruit and the honeyguides are unique among birds in being able to digest beeswax ( although insects make up the bulk of their diet ).

Their diet nearly always consists of termites, insect larvae, and the carrion of larger animals.

Its natural diet consists of crustaceans, insects, and annelids, although in captivity it is omnivorous.

Its diet consists mainly of fish, but it is an opportunistic feeder.

The Northern Bobwhite's diet consists of plants and small bugs, like snails, grasshoppers, and potato beetles.

As with other baleen whales, its diet consists almost exclusively of small crustaceans known as krill.

The diet of a hypercarnivore consists of more than 70 % meat, that of a mesocarnivore 50-70 %, and that of a hypocarnivore less than 30 %, with the balance consisting of non-animal foods, which may include fungi, fruits, and other plant material.

Some people whose diet consists of 75 % or more fruit consider themselves fruitarians.

The diet of big Komodo dragons mainly consists of deer, though they also eat considerable amounts of carrion.

The main diet of most lorisids consists of insects, but they also consume bird eggs and small vertebrates as well as fruits and sap.

Their diet consists of both terrestrial and aquatic vegetation.

While much lower in energy, these plants provide the moose with its sodium requirements, and as much as half of their diet usually consists of aquatic plant life.

The diet of Ostriches mainly consists of plant matter, though it also eats invertebrates.

A pet rabbit's diet typically consists of unlimited timothy-grass or other hay, a small amount of pellets, and a fair quantity of fresh vegetables and need unrestricted access to fresh clean water.

Like almost any herbivore, they will consume many other plants if presented with them, but their diet in nature consists almost entirely of grass, with only minimal consumption of aquatic plants.

Although bats and purple martins can be prodigious consumers of insects, many of which are pests, less than 1 % of their diet typically consists of mosquitoes.

A flounder's diet consists mainly of fish spawn, crustaceans, polychaetes and small fish.

Its diet consists of oysters, clams, and other bivalves, and barnacles, fiddler crabs, and other crustaceans ..

A mole's diet primarily consists of earthworms and other small invertebrates found in the soil, and a variety of nuts.

The red vole's diet consists chiefly of Common Douglas-fir needles.

Dugongs, along with other sirenians, are referred to as " sea cows " because their diet consists mainly of sea-grass.

The bulk of a pygmy hippo's diet consists of ferns, broad-leaved plants and fruits that have fallen to the forest floor.

Coatis are omnivores ; their diet consists mainly of ground litter invertebrates such as tarantula and fruit ( Alves-Costa et al .. 2004, 2007, Hirsch 2007 ).