How we choose your foods
We remove any food from your recommendations that conflicts with an allergy or dietary preference you told us about — so a peanut allergy means peanuts (and anything made from them) never appear here, even if they would otherwise be a strong match for your results.
Vegetarian, vegan, pescatarian and no red meat are based on each food’s actual animal content — vegan also removes dairy and eggs, pescatarian keeps fish but not meat or poultry.
Gluten-free and dairy-free remove any food already flagged as containing gluten or milk — the same check used for allergies.
Low-FODMAP is more of a judgement call than the others. How much FODMAP a food contains genuinely depends on portion size, which we don’t model yet, so we’ve erred on the side of caution: a food is excluded if it’s commonly a trigger at a typical serving, even where a smaller amount might be fine. Treat this as a helpful starting point rather than a clinically supervised low-FODMAP plan.
Keto keeps foods that are low in net carbohydrate — carbohydrate minus fibre, judged per 100g (a little tighter for drinks and fruit, a little looser for nuts and seeds). Herbs and spices are used in such small amounts that they’re always kept. It’s a food-level guide, not a prescribed ketogenic plan.
Paleo removes grains, beans and lentils, soya, dairy and refined seed oils, along with heavily processed alternatives made from them. Meat, fish, eggs, vegetables, fruit, nuts, seeds, potatoes and honey stay in.
Halal and kosher don’t currently change your results — none of the foods in our database conflict with either (there’s no pork, shellfish or alcohol-based ingredient yet). We’ll expand this as more foods are added.