Understand allergen flags and review status

Read the recorded flags

Dishcard records the ingredient information entered by your restaurant. It does not test the food or decide whether a dish is suitable for an individual guest.

• Contains records an allergen present in the entered information.
• May contain records a separate possible-presence or preparation flag. It is shown differently from Contains.
• None is an explicit ingredient-review choice meaning no flag in the entered information for that allergen.
• Needs review means the necessary review is not complete. It is different from choosing None.

A blank or “not listed” output cell is not a safety claim. Read the output legend and the dish’s completeness status rather than interpreting an empty space as verified absence.

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Understand how dishes inherit flags

Dishcard combines the flags of the ingredients in a dish, including components inside compound recipes. If one source contributes Contains and another contributes May contain for the same allergen, Contains takes precedence. Named variants recalculate the ingredients added or removed and retain applicable dish overrides.

Wheat also contributes a gluten flag when gluten is enabled. A gluten flag does not imply wheat. Changing the restaurant’s enabled set can expose additional review work; it does not erase previously recorded facts.

A dish needs ingredients or an explicit appropriate no-ingredients declaration, and its referenced records need the necessary review. Use Show dishes to finish on the menu or Needs review in Ingredients to find work that remains.

Use filters as a record view

1. Open Filter from the menu.
2. Choose the appropriate Show dishes status or select allergens under Show dishes without.
3. Choose Show [number] dishes and read the basis notice.

Allergen exclusion filters leave out Contains, May contain, incomplete, and unreviewed dishes for the selected criteria. They do not resolve preparation questions or certify suitability.

If a flag looks wrong, open the dish and trace it to the ingredient or recorded override. Check current source information before correcting the record. Do not mark remaining allergens None merely to increase the reviewed count. See Fix allergen information for a structured check.