Recipes that fit your allergies, intolerances and diet

The problem with searching for recipes when you have rules

Most recipe searching is rejection. You want a curry. You're vegan. You can't have gluten. You hate aubergine. Each page you open is a hopeful read of the ingredients list, a scroll past a long story, and usually a quiet "no". The dish you'd love is in there somewhere, behind nineteen you can't eat.

Grublin starts from the other end. It knows your rules before it writes a single line, so there is nothing to reject. Ask for a curry and the curry that comes back is already vegan and already gluten-free, with no aubergine in sight.

How Grublin handles dietary needs

Hard rules: allergens and intolerances

Each allergen you set is stated plainly in every recipe request. When the recipe comes back, Grublin's own code checks every ingredient against it, including the ways an allergen hides: soy sauce and beer for gluten, whey and ghee for dairy, houmous for sesame, satay for peanut, Worcestershire sauce for fish. If anything slips through, the recipe is rewritten before you see it.

• Tree nuts
• Peanut
• Shellfish
• Fish
• Dairy
• Egg
• Gluten
• Soy
• Sesame

Dietary styles

Vegetarian, vegan, halal and kosher are checked in the finished recipe the same way as allergens, because meat in a vegan curry is a broken promise, not a worse recipe. The nutritional styles steer every recipe strongly but are not re-checked, because a miss there is a less ideal dinner rather than a danger.

• Vegetarian
• Vegan
• Pescatarian
• Halal
• Kosher
• Low-carb
• Low-fat
• High-protein
• Keto
• Low-FODMAP
• Paleo
• Low-sugar
• Low-salt

Dislikes

Not an allergy, just a no. Coriander, mushrooms, olives, blue cheese, anything. Type them once in Preferences and they never appear in a recipe.

Combinations that are a nightmare to search for, and easy here

• Gluten-free and vegan. Set vegan and gluten. Ask for anything. No wheat, no barley, no soy sauce, no egg, no dairy, no honey.
• A nut allergy in a dairy-free house. Set tree nuts, peanut and dairy. Family dinners everyone can eat, from whatever's in the fridge.
• Halal and low-carb. Set both. Grub keeps the meat halal and the plate light without you searching for either.
• Kosher and low-FODMAP. A combination almost no recipe site can filter for. Set both once.
• Pescatarian with a shellfish allergy. Fish yes, prawns never.
• Keto, no egg, hates mushrooms. Set keto, egg, and type "mushrooms" under dislikes.

Both ways of asking respect all of it. Use what I've got: type or photograph your ingredients and Grub builds a recipe from them that meets every rule. I fancy something: describe a craving in plain words and Grub builds that instead, still inside your rules.

Guides for specific needs

A plain word on safety

Grublin uses AI to write recipes and its own code to check them. That check reduces the risk of an ingredient you asked to avoid; it does not remove it. Grublin cannot see the labels on the products in your kitchen, cannot know about cross-contamination in your cupboards or in a factory, and cannot replace medical or dietary advice. The kosher check excludes the clear-cut forbidden categories, pork and shellfish; it does not handle meat-and-dairy separation or slaughter certification, and the halal check does not verify certification either. Always read every ingredient and product label yourself before cooking. If you have a serious allergy or medical condition, do not rely on Grublin alone.