The phrase "a diet based on" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the foundation or primary components of a particular diet.
Example: "She follows a diet based on whole foods and plant-based ingredients for better health."
Alternatives: "a diet centered around" or "a diet focused on".
Most people live on a diet based on one or more of the following staples: rice, wheat, maize (corn), millet, sorghum, roots and tubers (potatoes, cassava, yams and taro), and animal products such as meat, milk, eggs, cheese and fish.
Preliminary laboratory observations suggest that a higher survival of T. lusitanicus individuals was obtained under a diet based on acorns compared to beetles under a dung-based diet (unpublished results).
Vegetarianism is a diet based on plant protein, ideally, or animal products (not the animal itself).
In the future they will instead "prescribe" a diet based on their gut microbiome.
A diet based on what humans ate 2.5m years ago, because cavemen were thin and didn't have diabetes.
Many Warao there live in homes built on stilts and eat a diet based on a tuber called ure.
Whether it's beef, lamb, bacon or processed chicken, it is highly likely that the meat comes from an animal reared on a diet based on soya meal.
Veal chops Most veal comes from animals that have been artificially orphaned, kept in crates or pens, and have been fed on a diet based on milk powder.
It is likely that OA treatment affected fewer genes, because the mice may be adapted to this fatty acid since they were fed a diet based on olive oil three weeks before gavage (for details, see methods section).
As foodies and health fanatics elsewhere in the world have embraced a diet based on olive oil, fish, fresh fruit and vegetables, this healthy regime is fast disappearing in the region of its birth.
Because of the poorer bio-availability and stability of food folate, a diet based on food folate will not be optimum in prevention.
