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This is kind of cool. The really good thing is the idea of a blacklist though, but perhaps having a system to tag ingredients would be better - it could potenti
by cupofjoakim 9y ago
This is kind of cool. The really good thing is the idea of a blacklist though, but perhaps having a system to tag ingredients would be better - it could potentially help food allergics and stuff as well if we could tag "gluten" or "lacto-ovo" or whatever. Vegans are a small group compared to vegans and people who restrict their diet due to illness.
- masklinn 9y ago> The really good thing is the idea of a blacklist though It's not though, because untagged items are assumed to be suitable. This becomes an issue for people with health-related diets e.g. if you have serious food allergies you want to be very very sure your foodstuff does not contain the allergen. So a tag/categories system should have "suitability tags" (whitelist) in much the same way restaurants will have marks for vegan or jain/ahimsa or halal items, not for the opposite.
- marricks 9y agoIt’s is it vegan, not is it allergen okay. I think blacklist is a good tool for that job.
- masklinn 9y agoI'm replying to a comment which specifically mentions gluten. Gluten is an allergen, and hype aside there are people for whom gluten is an actual health risk.
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