About AllowedOn

What This Site Does

AllowedOn answers a question almost every dieter asks at some point: can I eat this on my diet? The site classifies hundreds of common foods against 25 dietary frameworks and explains the reasoning behind each classification — not just whether a food is in or out, but why, and what to look for if a specific brand or preparation might change the answer.

The 25 frameworks covered are: AIP (Autoimmune Protocol), Alkaline, Anti-Inflammatory, Carnivore, DASH, Diabetic-Friendly, Gluten-Free, Halal, High-Protein, Keto, Kidney-Friendly, Kosher, Low-Carb, Low-Fat, Low-FODMAP, Low-Sodium, Mediterranean, Paleo, Pescatarian, Raw-Food, Sugar-Free, Vegan, Vegetarian, Whole-Food, and Whole30.

Each food on each diet is given one of three classifications:

• Allowed — the food fits the diet's standard guidelines and can be eaten without special handling in its plain form.
• Not Allowed — the food conflicts with one of the diet's core restrictions and is excluded.
• Limited — the food's compatibility depends on portion, preparation, brand, or other specific conditions, and the page explains what to check.

Why a Site Like This Exists

Information about specific diets is plentiful online, but it tends to live in long blog posts that bury the practical answer inside several paragraphs of background. People who actually follow a diet often need a fast, structured answer for a specific food in a specific moment — at the grocery store, mid-recipe, or before ordering at a restaurant. AllowedOn is designed for that moment.

The secondary purpose is to make cross-diet comparison easy. Many people follow more than one set of dietary rules — gluten-free and low-FODMAP, for example, or kosher and Mediterranean — and a food that fits one may not fit the other. Each food page links to its classification on every other diet, and the Compare tool shows the full picture across all 25 frameworks at once.

How to Use the Site

• Browse by diet — visit any diet page to see all classified foods, organized by category, for that dietary framework.
• Look up a specific food — use the Food Lookup page to find a food by name across all diets.
• Compare a food across diets — use the Compare tool to see how a single food is classified on every framework at once.
• Explore commonly checked foods — the Popular Foods section surfaces the items people most often look up.

Our Editorial Approach

AllowedOn does not invent diets, endorse them, or make claims about whether any diet is better than another. The site documents how foods are classified under each diet's own published rules. When the rules are explicit (such as the AIP elimination categories or the Whole30 ingredient list), classifications follow them directly. When the rules are principle-based (such as DASH's serving targets or the Mediterranean diet's frequency pattern), classifications apply the principles to the food's known composition and category.

Editorial standards on AllowedOn are anchored on three rules:

• Sources before opinions. Each diet's classification logic is built from the framework's published guidelines, peer-reviewed research where applicable, and the standard food lists used by practitioners. We do not classify based on intuition.
• Independence. AllowedOn has no affiliation with diet programs, food manufacturers, supplement companies, or wellness brands. We do not accept payment for classifications or favorable listings, and any advertising on the site is served by independent ad networks with no influence on editorial content.
• Corrections welcomed. Classifications are reviewed for internal consistency, but errors happen. Reader-reported corrections are reviewed against the relevant guidelines and applied when warranted. The corrections workflow is documented on the How It Works page.

The full methodology — including how classifications are derived, what sources are used, and how the site handles edge cases — is documented on the How It Works page.

Who Maintains AllowedOn

AllowedOn is maintained by an independent editorial team focused on dietary reference content. The team's role is to keep classifications consistent across the site, apply each diet's published rules accurately, review reader corrections, and update the site as dietary frameworks evolve. The site is not affiliated with any diet program, food brand, supplement company, or medical organization.

We draw on the published work of researchers and clinicians who have shaped each diet — for example, Monash University for low-FODMAP, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for DASH, the original Whole30 program guidelines, the Autoimmune Protocol literature, and the standard kashrut and halal authorities for the religious dietary systems.

What This Site Is Not

AllowedOn is a reference tool, not medical or nutritional advice. Several things the site cannot do:

• It cannot account for individual allergies, intolerances, medications, or medical conditions. A food classified as Allowed on a diet may still be inappropriate for a specific person.
• It cannot guarantee that a specific brand or product matches the standard form of a food. Ingredients change between brands, regions, and production runs — always read the product label.
• It cannot replace guidance from a registered dietitian, physician, or qualified clinician for people managing health conditions through diet.
• It cannot resolve disagreements between practitioners. Dietary frameworks sometimes have internal debates (whether ghee is dairy on AIP, whether stevia is sugar-free, whether certain spices are kosher), and those debates are documented in the relevant content rather than papered over.

For a fuller statement of these limits, see the Disclaimer.

Get in Touch

Questions, corrections, and feedback are welcome at hello@allowedon.com, or via the Contact page. Correction requests are taken seriously and reviewed against the relevant dietary guidelines before any change is made to a classification.