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Allergen & Health Notice

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Dinnerkin helps you plan meals around the diets and allergies in your household. Please read this notice carefully, especially if anyone you cook for has a food allergy, intolerance or coeliac disease.

1. How allergen filtering works

When you select an allergen for a household member, Dinnerkin leaves out recipes whose listed ingredients contain that allergen, according to our own ingredient data. Where a recipe can be adapted, for example with gluten-free pasta, we may suggest a swap and add it to your shopping list.

The filter is only as good as:

2. Always check the label

Read the label of every product, every time you buy it, even ones you have bought before. Manufacturers can change ingredients without notice. In the UK, the 14 major allergens must be emphasised in the ingredients list on pre-packed food (for example in bold).

3. Cross-contamination and "may contain"

Allergens can get into food by accident at any point: in factories, in shops, at deli or bakery counters, and in your own kitchen. Products may carry precautionary labels such as "may contain" or "not suitable for…". Dinnerkin does not reliably detect these warnings, and cannot know how food is prepared in your kitchen. If someone you cook for is sensitive to traces, prepare their food separately, clean surfaces and utensils, and check the label of every ingredient.

4. Free-text entries

If you type an allergen or food to avoid that isn't in our list, we try to match it to our ingredients. If we can't, we will tell you, and that item may not be filtered out.

5. Not medical advice

Dinnerkin is a meal-planning tool. It is not medical, dietetic or nutritional advice, and does not diagnose, treat or manage any condition. Talk to your GP, an allergy specialist or a registered dietitian about diagnosing and managing allergies, intolerances, coeliac disease or special diets. Do not delay or change medical treatment because of anything in the app.

6. In an emergency

If someone shows signs of a severe allergic reaction (anaphylaxis), such as difficulty breathing, swelling of the throat or tongue, or collapse, use their adrenaline auto-injector if they have one and call 999 immediately. More information: NHS, https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/anaphylaxis/.

7. The 14 allergens we let you select

These are the 14 allergens that UK food law requires businesses to declare:

  1. Celery
  2. Cereals containing gluten (such as wheat, rye, barley and oats)
  3. Crustaceans (such as prawns, crabs and lobsters)
  4. Eggs
  5. Fish
  6. Lupin
  7. Milk
  8. Molluscs (such as mussels and oysters)
  9. Mustard
  10. Peanuts
  11. Sesame
  12. Soybeans
  13. Sulphur dioxide and sulphites (at more than 10 mg/kg or 10 mg/litre) ⚠️ confirm the threshold wording against the FSA page
  14. Tree nuts (such as almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts, cashews, pecans, Brazil nuts, pistachios and macadamia nuts)

"Gluten-free", "vegetarian", "vegan", "dairy-free" and other diets are filtered the same way, with the same limits.

8. Our responsibility

We take care to keep our recipe and ingredient data accurate, and we review recipes before they are published. Because we cannot control the products you buy or how food is prepared, we cannot promise that any meal is free from any allergen. This notice does not affect your legal rights as a consumer, or our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, which cannot be excluded (see our Terms of Use).

9. Tell us about a mistake

If you spot an ingredient or allergen error in a recipe, please report it with Report a problem on the recipe screen or email [CONTACT EMAIL]. We will review it within [2] working days and fix or remove the recipe.

Sources (read 2026-10-17)