Every recipe, paleo.

What paleo is and isn't

Paleo isn't a low-carb diet, a high-protein diet, or a fad. It's a whole-foods diet: every ingredient must be something a pre-agricultural human would have recognized as food. The result is naturally gluten-free, dairy-free (in strict versions), and free of refined sugar.

How Adapteats handles paleo

The rulebook removes three big categories at once:

1. Grains → cauliflower rice, almond flour, coconut flour, sweet potato as a starch
2. Legumes → diced root vegetables (turnip, parsnip), more vegetables, more meat
3. Refined sugar → raw honey, maple syrup, date paste (1:¾ ratio for sugar)

Industrial seed oils are also swapped — soybean oil becomes avocado, canola becomes olive, corn becomes coconut. The recipe reads like a high-quality restaurant ingredient list.

Strict vs flexible paleo

There are two common variants Adapteats supports:

• Strict paleo — no dairy at all
• Primal — adds butter, ghee, and aged cheeses back (popular with the Mark Sisson school)

You set the preference in onboarding; existing adapted recipes update automatically.

What about peanuts?

Peanuts are technically legumes, not nuts — so they're out for paleo. Adapteats swaps peanut butter for almond butter or sunflower seed butter (which is also nut-allergy-safe). Cashews and other tree nuts stay on the table.

A note on social cooking

Paleo recipes scale to a household but get awkward at potlucks where wheat-based sides dominate. Adapteats keeps the original recipe visible alongside the adapted one — so if you're cooking for a mixed group, you can serve both versions from the same shopping trip.