Things to Eat for Vegetarian Keto Diet

Keto diet is very healthy for maintaining a good weight and overall health. The diet is high-fat, low carb and moderate in protein. Your body should have normal blood ketone value. Imbalance of ketone value may lead to weight loss. Keto diet helps you to maintain a normal ketone value.

People who are suffering from Type 1 diabetes have a high chance of abnormal value of ketone so it is suggested to take a test to check your ketone level. There are self ketone test strips available in the market to check it.

Now let’s talk about the Vegan Keto diet which exclude all animal products and adapted to plant based meal.

1. Plant Based: Avocado and its oil, Olive and its oil, coconut and its oil.
2. Low-carb Vegetarian Protein: Tofu, Seitan, these are high in fiber and low-carb protein. It is recommended to read the ingredients for every product you are going to eat because they may contain high level of sugar in that.
3. Low-carb vegetables: There are various veggies available with the low-carbs mainly cauliflower, broccoli, spinach, mushrooms, cabbage, sprouts, and Swiss.
4. Seeds: You may be wondering why I have mentioned seeds here, yes it is true that seeds are high in fat but low in carbs. They are high in fiber.
5. Eggs: This is one of the easiest foods for you which can be easily taken without thinking a lot and efforts. Also they are good in fat with no carbs.
6. Dairy Products: Take cheese and yogurts, butter but avoid high sugar products of dairy.
7. Nuts: Nuts are low carb and higher in fat. Nuts are one of the best choices if you are going to Keto diet.
8. Berries: Strawberries, blackberries are lower in carb and higher in fat as they are packed with fiber.

Benefits of vegan Keto Diet

There is no study reveals about the benefits of vegan keto diet but as per the survey it has been found that it reduces the heart risk and certain cancers.

• Reduce the risk of 75% of higher blood pressure
• Vegan keto diet positively impacts your health
• Helps in blood sugar control, reduce the chance of type 2 diabetes.

Avoid foods while you are on keto diet

While on keto diet, you should reduce your carb intake and take high-fat products.

Avoid meat, beef, chicken, pork, fish, shrimp, clams, mussels, and animal-based ingredients: Whey protein, honey, egg white protein. You should start avoiding sugar,

Side Effects of Keto Diet

There are lot of side effects of Keto diet and it is so challenging because most of the food is high in protein and low in carbs. Also vegetarian lacks in vitamins, B12. Checkout the following side effects of keto diet.

1. Constipation
2. Headache
3. Weakness
4. Dizziness
5. Difficulty in sleeping
6. Low concentration

You can avoid these side effects by keeping yourself hydrated, taking fiber rich foods. Vegan diet restricts food so it is not easy to have it.

Sakshi Jain is a marketing manager at Roches Chemist.