What the everloving hell? Making hummus is pretty much totally vegan, I can’t actually come up with a recipe that isn’t vegan - it is chickpeas, olive oil, garlic and potentially parsley or paprika sprinkled on top. Until you get into some of the funky ones [what is in chocolate hummus?] it should not include dairy or critter bits.
I can not believe what I see online sometimes like diet water, gluten free water [!] and vegan whatever …
I’m wondering if the recipe you saw includes “Vegan” as a search engine optimization tool, so folks searching for “vegan recipes” or “vegan dips” or “vegan chickpeas” will have that recipe come up on the first page.
“Gluten free water” was bottled in a plant that does not process gluten-containing foods. For some people, that’s as important as being, say, peanut-free.
True, but water is still a bit of an oddball because it’s not something you tend to even expect might use gluten-containing equipment. I’m pretty sure it’s on the list of things you don’t actually have to test for gluten to label as gluten free.