Your health profile is what every food score is measured against. The first time you use VitalPlate you’ll go through a short interview, and you can change your answers any time in settings.
The four questions
The setup interview asks, in plain language:
- Do any of these apply to you? — health conditions like kidney disease (CKD), heart or blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, gout, IBS, acid reflux, or celiac disease.
- Are you taking any of these medications? — medications with food interactions, such as warfarin, statins, MAOIs, or transplant medications.
- Any allergies? — peanut, tree nut, shellfish, milk, egg, soy, fish, sesame, or wheat/gluten.
- Do any foods reliably bother you? — sensitivities like FODMAPs, caffeine, nightshades, high-oxalate foods, or grapefruit.
Diets and preferences
You can also tell VitalPlate how you like to eat — vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian, keto, low-carb (LCHF), paleo, or single-food exclusions like "no pork" or "no dairy." Diets are treated as preferences: they add restrictions but never loosen a medical limit. See How your conditions combine.
Describing something in your own words
If your condition isn’t in the list, you can type it in your own words and VitalPlate will match it to the closest profile it knows. If nothing fits well, it simply won’t guess — your scores stay based on what it can actually verify.