For families with special diets
A child can grow well on any of these patterns — with attention. Miriel is built to give that attention by default, watching the specific nutrients each pattern needs more deliberate planning around, without making the family fit the app.
Most nutrition apps treat dietary patterns as filters that strip out non-matching foods, leaving you with a smaller version of the same generic plan. Vegetarian-mode Mealime is just Mealime with meat removed.
Miriel treats each pattern as a real way of eating, with its own nutrient priorities, its own protein sources, its own cultural cuisine, and its own places to watch carefully — especially in childhood.
For vegan children, Miriel watches B12, vitamin D, iron, calcium, omega-3, and zinc specifically. For vegetarian children, similar with looser B12 risk. The defaults reflect what the diet pattern actually needs.
Both are supported as first-class preference settings. Recipes and meal plans respect them; cross-cuisine adaptation works within the constraint, not around it.
A Korean halal family does not want a Western halal meal plan with kimchi as a side. Miriel adapts cuisine and pattern together — the meal plan looks like food that family actually eats.
When the diet alone is unlikely to meet a need — vegan B12, for instance — Miriel surfaces supplementation reminders rather than pretending the food alone is enough. For infants and toddlers on vegan diets, we explicitly recommend pediatric and dietitian oversight in parallel.
Yes, with attention. The American Dietetic Association and most pediatric bodies recognise well-planned vegan diets as appropriate at any life stage. For young children, the bar for "well-planned" is higher than for adults, and pediatric and dietitian oversight is recommended.
Both are first-class preference settings, respected across all recipes and meal plans. Region-specific recipe coverage continues to grow; feedback from specific cuisines is welcomed.
Yes. Korean cuisine is a core supported pattern, including attention to sodium (the dominant Korean nutrition challenge), balance with white rice, and culturally familiar protein and vegetable choices.
Position papers from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (and equivalents internationally), pediatric guidance from the AAP on vegetarian and vegan child feeding, and the Korean Dietary Reference Intakes inform the defaults here. Full citations on the research page.
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