Recipes
One dinner. Everyone's biology and tastes considered.
PlateHelix scores every recipe against every relevant household member, surfaces safe substitutions, and gives clear per-person prep instructions when bodies and palates disagree.
- Compatibility score 0–100 with per-member breakdown
- Hard blocks for allergies and absolute-avoid ingredients
- Cook-once-customize-plates instructions when bodies disagree
- Pantry-aware: shows what's in stock and what's missing
- Ratings feedback loop — low-rated recipes stop showing up
- Generated hero image so the recipe actually looks like dinner
Why most 'family recipes' fail real families
Pinterest gives you a single beautiful plate. Your house has five different bodies. Someone's allergic to tree nuts. Someone's avoiding dairy after a recent gut flare. A kid only eats food that's beige.
The usual workaround is to cook two or three things in parallel, which is exhausting, or to default to the lowest common denominator, which is boring. PlateHelix solves this with explicit per-member compatibility and 'cook once, customize plates' guidance — one base, small tweaks per person, no separate meals.
How it works
How it works
Pick who's eating
Select tonight's diners. The assistant pulls every relevant rule, allergy, dietary style, and lab/DNA finding for each one.
Generate or score a recipe
Describe what you want — 'sheet-pan Mediterranean', 'comfort food on a Tuesday' — or pick a saved recipe. PlateHelix scores it 0–100 per person with explicit reasoning.
Get safe substitutions
If something blocks a person, the assistant proposes substitutions that preserve the dish's character — almond flour → oat flour, dairy yogurt → coconut yogurt, etc.
Cook once, customize plates
When needed, you get a single base recipe and small per-plate tweaks: 'plate A: add feta', 'plate B: skip cheese, add olives'. One pan, multiple bodies fed.
What it does, in detail
Scoring
Per-member compatibility 0–100
Every recipe shows a score per person plus a household average. You see who it works for at a glance, and tap to expand the reasoning.
Safety
Hard allergy & rule blocks
Confirmed allergies and explicit user rules are absolute. A recipe with a blocked ingredient never appears as 'compatible' — it appears with a clear block and a substitution path if one exists.
Pantry sync
What you have, what you'd need to buy
Recipes flag in-stock pantry items and the missing ingredients you'd need, so you can choose between 'cook with what's here' and 'add to shopping list'.
Visuals
Generated hero images
Every saved recipe gets a generated photo so your library looks like an actual cookbook, not a wall of text.
Memory
Ratings tune the system
Rate a recipe and the assistant adjusts. Low ratings drop similar suggestions; high ratings boost the cuisine, technique, and ingredient profile.
Reuse
Save and remix
Save AI-generated recipes to your library. Re-cook, tweak the prompt, scale servings, or branch a variant — all without losing the original.
Real households, real plates
Mixed-diet couple
Pescatarian + omnivore, sharing one pan.
Sheet-pan salmon and chickpeas with a side of crispy chicken thighs on the same tray. One bake, two plates.
Family with a dairy-sensitive kid
Pasta night without leaving anyone out.
Same sauce, two finishes: parmesan on the adult plates, nutritional yeast on the kid's plate. Same cook, same time at the table.
Solo cook for 3 generations
Lower sodium for a parent, higher iron for a teen.
Beef-and-lentil stew with the salt finished at the plate, plus a vitamin-C-rich slaw on the side to boost iron absorption.
Frequently asked
Where do the recipes come from?
They're generated by the assistant using your prompt and your household profile. You can also save and edit ones you love so they live in your permanent library.
What if I don't trust a substitution?
Every substitution is editable. Swap to your preferred alternative, and the assistant remembers your preference for next time.
Can I import recipes from elsewhere?
We're focused on AI-generated, household-scored recipes first. Importing third-party recipes and re-scoring them is on the roadmap.