Buddhist-Compatible

This Buddhist diet is a tad stricter than lacto-vegetarianism.

Without:

• meat (like red meat, pork, and poultry)
• fish and shellfish
• slaughtered meat derivatives (like animal rennets or gelatin)
• eggs
• alcohol
• vegetables from the alium genus (onion, garlic, ..)

With:

• dairy
• insect by-products (like honey)
• fruit and vegetables
• nuts
• seeds, beans, and grains

Diabetes

A balanced diet to manage glucose blood levels. Recipes that meet the following criteria may be helpful in managing diabetes.

Low in

• glucose (like corn syrup and sugar)
• fructose (fruit sugars)
• other sugars (like lactose from milk, or maltose from starch)
• sodium
• high glycemic index foods, including refined carbohydrates (like white bread, potatoes, pasta, and rice)
• saturated and trans fats (like red meat, high-fat dairy, and eggs)

With

• fruits and vegetables
• seeds and nuts
• high-fiber whole grains
• fish and shellfish
• lean meats (like chicken breast)

Select low-glycemic in Advanced Search for strictly low-glycemic foods.

Halal-Compatible

The halal diet includes only foods that are allowed under Muslim law, with some scholarly variation. A halal-compatible recipe is halal when the necessary rituals have been performed in the preparation of all ingredients.

Without These Haram Foods

• carnivorous animals with fangs
• pigs and boars
• birds of prey
• reptiles and amphibians (mostly)
• mules, donkeys
• pests (like rats, squirrels, and monkeys)
• protected animals (like ants, bees, and woodpeckers)
• insects (except for locusts)
• certain animal parts (like testicles, bladder, pancreas)
• certain animal biproducts (like flowing blood, L-Cysteine, Calcium Phosphates, rennet, or gelatin)
• poisonous seafood (like blowfish)
• alcohol

With These Halal Foods

• dairy
• eggs
• fruit and vegetables
• nuts
• seeds, beans, and grains
• honey
• domesticated poultry (like chicken, duck, and - controversially - turkey)
• mammals (like cattle, sheep, goats, camels, rabbits)
• seafood (with some variation especially regarding Prawns, Shrimps, Lobsters, Crabs, Squid, Octopus, and Oysters )
• locusts

For variations, manually remove ingredients through Advanced Search.

Keto

The ketogenic diet is a low-carb, extremely high-fat diet designed to metabolize ketones from fat rather than glucose from carbohydrates. Consult your physician before attempting the keto diet, as many health conditions are contra-indicated.

High

• Over 70% calories from fat

Low

• Under 5% calories from carbohydrates

This diet was designed to manage epilepsy by decreasing inflammation and increasing inhibitory neurotransmitters in the brain. Like glucose, ketone levels are regulated by insulin. People with diabetes are at risk with a keto diet because they could end up with dangerous ketone levels, or ketoacidosis.

Kosher-Compatible

The kosher diet follows detailed Jewish dietary laws called Kashrut.
A kosher-compatible recipe is kosher when a Jewish person prepares it using kosher-certified ingredients and following the rules of Kashrut.

Without these Treif Foods

• meat from mammals without hooves (like hares, rabbits, horses, camels, hyraxes, bats, and kangaroos)
• meat from non-ruminants mammals (like pigs)
• all invertebrates (like molluscs and insects) except for locusts
• seafood without fins (like crabs and clams)
• seafood without scales (like dolphins and catfish)
• meat from reptiles and amphibians
• meat from animals that eat other animals, including birds of prey (like vultures, eagles, and owls)
• "New World" poultry (like ostrich, certain pheasants)
• meat from injured or live animals
• certain animal parts (like loins, sciatic nerve, certain fats, and blood)
• derivatives from items on this list

With

• exceptions for foods that are traditionally eaten (such as turkey)
• fruit and vegetables
• nuts
• seeds, beans, and grains
• honey
• domesticated poultry (like chicken, duck, and - controversially - turkey)
• meat from hooved ruminants (like cows, sheep, goats, and deer)
• seafood with fins and scales (like tuna, salmon, and trout)
• dairy (is also allowed in bread that is never eaten with meat)
• allowed "pareve" foods prepared separately from meat, dairy, and their derivatives (like eggs from allowed animals)
• certain foods converted to pareve (like some meat-derived gelatins and rennets)
• certain types of locusts

Without Disallowed Mixtures (food and preparation)

• meat and dairy, or their derivatives
• meat and fish, or their derivatives
• meat and its derivatives in common bread
• dairy and its derivatives in common bread

Foods labeled pareve may not be sufficiently free of dairy to not list contains: milk. For this reason, people with a milk allergy should not rely on pareve labels.

Special Preparations

• by Jews only
• for grape derivatives (like wine and cream of tartar)
• for meat and poultry (for example, blood must be drained or broiled off)
• for cheese and other dairy products, with some variation
• for bread, with some variation (most bread must be pareve)
• requiring crops grown far from vinyards
• requiring fruit picked from plants that are at least three years old

Labels that are not kosher-certified may include ingredients or preparation methods that are not kosher.

Paleo-Compatible

This diet is built on the premise that foods available to early humans are easier to digest.

Without

• dairy (except for yogurt and ghee)
• grains
• legumes
• nightshades
• synthetic or artificial ingredients
• refined or processed ingredients (may be substituted)

With

• most other vegetables
• fruits
• seeds and nuts
• meat
• fish and shellfish

Also select dairy-free in Advanced Search to narrow results.

Pescatarian (Lacto-Ovo)

Without:

• meat (like red meat, pork, and poultry)
• slaughtered meat derivatives (like animal rennets or gelatin)

With:

• fish
• shellfish
• eggs
• dairy
• fruit and vegetables
• nuts
• seeds, beans, and grains
• insect by-products (like honey)

Pescatarian (Lacto)

Without:

• meat (like red meat, pork, and poultry)
• slaughtered meat derivatives (like animal rennets or gelatin)
• eggs

With:

• fish
• shellfish
• dairy
• fruit and vegetables
• nuts
• seeds, beans, and grains
• insect by-products (like honey)

Pescatarian (Ovo)

Without:

• meat (like red meat, pork, and poultry)
• slaughtered meat derivatives (like animal rennets or gelatin)
• dairy

With:

• fish
• shellfish
• eggs
• fruit and vegetables
• nuts
• seeds, beans, and grains
• insect by-products (like honey)

Raw-Compatible

Without:

• processed or refined foods (may be substituted)
• foods heated above 115°F (46°C). Ingredients, like pasta sauce, may be substituted for their raw version, like pizza sauce.

With:

• wild or organic foods
• raw foods
• foods heated under 115°F (46°C)
• fermented foods

Vegan

Without:

• meat (like red meat, pork, poultry, fish, and shellfish)
• eggs
• dairy
• other meat derivatives (like animal rennets or gelatin)
• insect by-products (like honey)

With:

• fruit and vegetables
• nuts
• seeds, beans, and grains

Strict veganism also precludes fruits and vegetables that rely on farmed insects. As there is much variation according to preference and location, manually remove these ingredients through Advanced Search.

Vegetarian (Lacto-ovo)

Without:

• meat (like red meat, pork, and poultry)
• fish and shellfish
• slaughtered meat derivatives (like animal rennets or gelatin)

With:

• dairy
• eggs
• insect by-products (like honey)
• fruit and vegetables
• nuts
• seeds, beans, and grains

Vegetarian (Lacto)

Without:

• meat (like red meat, pork, and poultry)
• fish and shellfish
• slaughtered meat derivatives (like animal rennets or gelatin)
• eggs

With:

• dairy
• insect by-products (like honey)
• fruit and vegetables
• nuts
• seeds, beans, and grains

Vegetarian (Ovo)

Without:

• meat (like red meat, pork, and poultry)
• fish and shellfish
• slaughtered meat derivatives (like animal rennets or gelatin)
• dairy

With:

• eggs
• insect by-products (like honey)
• fruit and vegetables
• nuts
• seeds, beans, and grains

Low-Glycemic

A food's glycemic index indicates how fast its carbohydates are digested. Slowly digested foods have low glycemic indices and do not spike blood sugar levels, wheareas quickly digested foods have high glycemic indices and cause sugar rushes.

A glycemic index must be clinically measured from actual blood samples, and can vary widely for a food depending on its preparation and consumption. SafeRecipes calculates rough glycemic load estimates from known glycemic indices, which may not be availabe for certain ingredients. The glycemic load also takes into account the amount of carbohydrate per serving.

As with any diet, the risks and benefits of following this diet should be discussed with a physician.

Top-8-Free

The 8 most common allergens are:

• Cow Milk/Dairy
• Egg
• Peanut
• Tree Nuts
• Shellfish
• Wheat
• Soy
• Fish

Top-9-Free

The 9 most common allergens are:

• Cow Milk/Dairy
• Egg
• Peanut
• Tree Nuts
• Shellfish
• Wheat
• Soy
• Fish
• Sesame

Top-10-Free

The 10 most common allergens are:

• Cow Milk/Dairy
• Egg
• Peanut
• Tree Nuts
• Shellfish
• Wheat
• Soy
• Fish
• Sesame
• Mustard

Top-12-Free

The 12 most common allergens are:

• Cow Milk/Dairy
• Egg
• Peanut
• Tree Nuts
• Shellfish
• Wheat
• Soy
• Fish
• Sesame
• Mustard
• Celery
• Corn

Top-14-Free

The 14 most common allergens are:

• Cow Milk/Dairy
• Egg
• Peanut
• Tree Nuts
• Shellfish
• Wheat
• Soy
• Fish
• Sesame
• Mustard
• Celery
• Corn
• Gluten
• Lupin
• Sulfites

Alpha-Gal-Free

Alpha Gal stands for galactose-α-1,3-galactose, which is a sugar found in the meat of most mammals. People with an allergy to alpha gal cannot eat any meat, especially red meat. Some develop this allergy after being bitten by a lone star tick. Most people with an alpha-gal allergy can tolerate dairy in small quantities. The higher the fat content, the higher the alpha-gal content.