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Searching for recipes when you have food allergies
Sun, 11/16/2008 - 14:13
Please tell us how RecipeComparison can help those of you with food allergies find recipes that are appropriate for your diet. How do you search for recipes today?
RecipeComparison already does two things to help people with food allergies. First, RecipeComparison lets you specify ingredients that you do not want to find in a recipe. This is done by using the minus sign as described in the Search Tips. Second, RecipeComparison lets you specify food allergies in your profile and then automatically highlights the ingredients of recipes that correspond to those allergies.
Does this work for you? What else can we do? For example, currently you need to explicitly list all your food allergy ingredients for the automatic highlighting. Would it be helpful to specify a higher level allergy such as "gluten" or "lactose", or would you want to customize the list of affected ingredients anyway?
Please tell us how we can better help you.
Sat, 01/10/2009 - 17:26
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Your suggestion is absolutely in the plans. For what it's worth, pasta is a good example of how/why we initially chose not to automatically expand higher-level allergies like wheat or gluten. There are some wheat-free pastas so we didn't want to blindly exclude them all, but in retrospect perhaps that is the better short-term solution.
would be helpful to search based on higher-level allergy such as gluten or dairy. i searched for -wheat, but still got recipes that contain wheat in forms other than the actual word "wheat" such as recipes with the ingredients pasta and biscuits, both of which contain wheat. thanks!