Overview
About Orthodox Fasting
Orthodox fasting grading covers the strict fast: no meat, dairy, egg or vertebrate fish, with shellfish permitted and oil and wine kept for the days that allow them.
Examples
A few ingredients either way
Grading
How we grade Orthodox Fasting
Every ingredient in the database carries one grade for orthodox fasting, and this page, the checker and the app all read that same grade. It describes the ingredient as it is usually eaten. Portion size and preparation move it.
Orthodox Fasting is kept as a rule. In the app, an ingredient you would have to check the label on still counts against the day.
Practical
Following Orthodox Fasting
- Check your own calendar and jurisdiction for the oil and wine days.
- Read labels for milk powder, butter and fish sauce.
- Keep a detailed food and symptom diary to track your personal reactions
- Eliminate the suspected trigger completely for 2-4 weeks
- Reintroduce gradually to find your personal tolerance threshold
- Work with a healthcare provider or registered dietitian for guidance
- Remember that food sensitivities can change over time
Method
Test it with a diary
Most people find their own triggers by logging meals and symptoms for a few weeks and reading the result back. Three steps.
- 1Log every meal for a few weeks. Type it, say it out loud, or scan a barcode, and it lands as a list of ingredients.
- 2Rate how you feel through the day on whatever you are tracking, whether that is bloating, headaches, skin or sleep.
- 3Read the pattern back. Every ingredient you logged is scored against the days you felt worse, and the result ranks orthodox fasting against everything else you eat.
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Where to go next
Get started
Following Orthodox Fasting?
Log what you eat and how you feel, and the app finds the pattern for you. Or look an ingredient up here first.