Most people have more than one thing in their profile. VitalPlate merges them with one simple principle: restrictions win.
- All your avoid-lists are combined — anything any condition avoids is avoided.
- For nutrient limits, the lowest (most restrictive) limit is kept when conditions overlap.
- The strictest severity wins — if one condition treats something as Avoid and another as Caution, it’s Avoid.
- Diets are soft preferences: they only add restrictions and never relax a medical limit.
A worked example
Say you have both kidney disease (CKD) and type 2 diabetes. CKD sets tighter limits on sodium, potassium, and phosphorus; diabetes adds a tight limit on added sugar. Your plan ends up with all of those limits at once, each at its strictest value — so a food only passes if it clears every one.
This is why adding a condition can make more foods show as Caution or Avoid — the bar got higher, on purpose.