What ClapDiet warns you about, where it says so, and what it deliberately does
not do.
Two separate layers
Warnings come from two places, and they behave differently. Knowing which is
which explains most of what you will see.
1. Condition ratings on a food
Twenty-one conditions carry a rating on every food in the database, from one to
five. Two of those five produce a warning:
RatingShown as 1 — avoidContraindicated. The food is never suggested to you. 2 — cautionRisky. A warning is shown. 3 — neutralNo warning. Fine in moderation. 4-5 — prefer, excellentNo warning.Ratings of three and above carry no warning at all. A neutral food is not a
quiet warning; it is a food with nothing to say.
2. Medication interactions
Drawn from your medication list and from the medication classes your conditions
carry. Four severities — critical, important, moderate and good to know — and
five kinds. Medication Tracking
covers them in full.
Where warnings appear
On a food's page
Both layers show here. Medication warnings sit above the log button as one box
per interaction, colour-coded by severity, each naming what tripped it.
Before you log
Only a critical medication interaction adds a step. A dialog names the
interaction and its source; you can go back or continue.
Nothing else interrupts. Not a caution rating, not an important interaction, not
a timing note. A product that asks you to confirm four times a day has taught
you to stop reading, which costs more than it saves.
On your dashboard
The safety banner carries alerts of two kinds: critical lab values from a
panel you uploaded, and critical or important medication interactions. Each
can be marked read or dismissed.
On the clinician report
Every current interaction, in a table, with its source and what triggered it.
Where warnings do not appear
Being explicit about this matters more than listing what exists:
table, not from a model that can be corrected in place.
raises a dashboard alert about the value. It does not go on to mark foods.
What a warning is built from
Each one names its own evidence rather than asserting a conclusion:
threshold being applied. If ClapDiet flags a food at 340 mg of potassium per
100 g, it tells you both numbers.
they are: a prompt to read the ingredients list, not a statement about what is
in the product.
There is no sensitivity setting
Safety warnings have no dial, and that is deliberate: a setting that can hide a
medication interaction is a setting that will eventually hide the one that
mattered.
What you can change is what they are drawn from. Keep Settings > Profile
current — the medications and allergies listed there, and the conditions on your
profile, are exactly what is checked.
When the check fails
If ClapDiet cannot reach the interaction check, it says so on the food page and
in the banner. A failed check is never rendered as a clean result.
Important: Warnings supplement medical advice; they do not replace it.
Discuss dietary restrictions with your healthcare provider.
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