Food organised by what it interacts with. MyPlate already covers macronutrients and it is free — restating it adds nothing. What no official plate does is tell you which tier your medicine, your fast or your preparation takes off the table, and name the mechanism.
No money this week. Not a dietary state — a circumstance. The right response is the benefits navigator, not a food rule.
The base. Cheap, storable, and what almost every tradition actually built its table on.
Fresh matter. The tier most often lost first when money is short, which is why the free-food programmes matter here.
Sourced however the practitioner sources it. The Temple takes no position on flesh; it takes a position on knowing what is in it.
Carrier for fat-soluble compounds, which is why it appears in preparation traditions far more than in nutrition charts.
Set apart deliberately. Nutritionally small, pharmacologically the loudest tier on the plate — see the MAOI state.
It is the smallest tier on the plate and the loudest one pharmacologically. Aged cheese, cured meat, soy sauce, miso, yeast extract, unpasteurised beer — nutritionally a rounding error, and the single tier that can put someone on an MAOI in hospital. A plate that sorts by macronutrient has no way to say that. This one is built so it can.
Educational only. This is a frame for thinking about food, not medical or dietary advice, and it does not replace a clinician or a pharmacist. Where a state names a drug interaction, the mechanism and its citations live in interactions-data.mjs — read those before relying on any of it.
This is a screener, not a diagnosis, and it cannot establish any medically determinable impairment. It produces a list of questions and specific tests to bring to a clinician. Nothing here is a finding, a clearance, or a result. If any page renders this as a conclusion about a person, that page is wrong.