Ingredient flagging

Introduce optional ingredient flagging to support users with health conditions, sensitivities, or specific dietary goals/needs.

Rather than restricting recipes, the app could:

  • Allow users to track ingredients or categories they want to monitor or be made aware of (e.g. spicy, acidic, high-fat, high-calorie)
    • Use AI to automatically identify and flag these within recipes
    • Provide gentle indicators to support informed decision-making

This would be especially helpful as users aren’t always aware of, or able to remember, which ingredients may trigger symptoms - particularly when energy or cognitive capacity is low.

This feature would improve accessibility for disabled users and those with chronic conditions, while also supporting a wider audience, including people managing diets, nutrition goals, or temporary sensitivities.

This is not about restricting choices, but reducing cognitive load and supporting safer, more accessible decision-making.