Methodology
How dietary recommendations work in Kitchicon
By Nicholas Boyd · Updated August 4, 2026
Kitchicon ranks recipe ideas only after applying hard dietary filters. Allergies, medical restrictions, and refused ingredients block conflicting dishes before taste ranking runs. Soft preferences can steer the list. They cannot override a hard rule.
Order of operations
First, exclude recipes that conflict with hard rules in your taste profile. Second, rank what remains using taste signals and context such as what you want to cook. Third, learn from feedback without weakening the hard filters.
- Hard rules: allergies, medical diets, absolute avoidances
- Taste signals: cuisines, likes, and softer preferences
- Feedback: what you cooked, skipped, or disliked
What this does not claim
Filtering is not medical advice and not a substitute for reading labels. Catalog data and AI output can miss allergens or misread ingredients. If you have celiac disease or severe allergies, verify every ingredient yourself before cooking or eating.
Why we publish this
People shopping for an AI meal planner deserve a clear statement of how safety-related filtering is supposed to work. If a product only treats allergies as soft preferences, that is a different product than one that blocks conflicts first.