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Dietary Classifications

In order to help you make effective decisions when browsing the Hampr marketplace, Partners are able to categorise menu items (and their variations) with dietary information.

What are Hampr's Dietary Classifications?

Hampr classifies dietary information into the following primary categories:

  • Allergies - If someone has a food allergy, their immune system reacts to that food by producing specific proteins called antibodies to 'fight' it. This can lead to symptoms of an allergic reaction. This reaction may even be severe enough to cause a life-threatening condition called anaphylaxis.
  • Intolerances - a food intolerance doesn't involve the immune system. It is predominantly a digestive system response that is related to the amount of a 'problem food' that you eat. They are often reactions triggered by natural chemicals food which can irritate nerve endings in different parts of the body, similar to side-effects due to certain drugs in some people.
  • Ethics/Lifestyle - A vegan diet, or veganism, tends to omit animal products for ethical, health or environmental reasons.
  • Faith-Based Restrictions - A diet dictated by one's religion.
Each primary category is listed below, with detailed dietary classifiers listed within.

Allergies

If someone has a food allergy, their immune system reacts to that food by producing specific proteins called antibodies to 'fight' it. This can lead to symptoms of an allergic reaction. This reaction may even be severe enough to cause a life-threatening condition called anaphylaxis.

  • Tree Nuts / Nuts
  • Peanut
  • Soy
  • Egg
  • Seafood / Shellfish / Fish
  • Sesame

Intolerances

A food intolerance doesn't involve the immune system. It is predominantly a digestive system response that is related to the amount of a 'problem food' that you eat. They are often reactions triggered by natural chemicals food which can irritate nerve endings in different parts of the body, similar to side-effects due to certain drugs in some people.

  • Gluten Free - No Gluten diet. Gluten is a protein found in grains and wheat. In a person with coeliac disease, gluten causes the immune system to react, resulting in damage to the absorptive surface of the small intestine.
  • Dairy Free - A diet free from dairy/milk. A person with a milk/dairy allergy is often allergic to one of two proteins found in milk (casein and whey).
  • Lactose Free - A diet free from lactose. Lactose is a type of sugar found in milk. Lactase is an enzyme in our body that digest this sugar. Some people stop producing lactase causing problems.

Ethics/Lifestyle

A vegan diet, or veganism, tends to omit animal products for ethical, health or environmental reasons.

  • Vegan - No meat and animal byproducts.
  • Vegetarian - No meat but animal byproducts such as milk, honey and eggs etc., are good.
  • Pescatarian - No meat but fish and seafood and animal byproducts are normally ok.

Faith-Based Restrictions

A diet dictated by one's religion.

  • Halal - Means what is allowed/permissible to eat in Muslim faith.
  • Halal-Friendly - Food or dishes that are good to eat in Islam faith. This is what we endorse in Hampr's platform.
  • Halal-Sourced - Ingredients were procured or sourced in halal-certified suppliers. These are most likely where halal-friendly dishes' ingredients from Hampr's suppliers come from.
  • Halal-Certified - A certification scheme for manufacturers and food producers to produce commodities that are of Halal standard., Eg. Butcheries, Chicken Factories, Fish Processors.
  • Kosher - Food that complies with the strict dietary standards of traditional Jewish law.
  • Beef Free - Avoidance of beef in the diet for religious reason such as Sikhism where cattle are sacred or health reasons such as iron hyper sufficiency, Alzheimer's etc.

Abbreviations of terms use in our platform.

  • NF - Nut Free
  • PF - Peanut Free
  • EF - Egg Free
  • SF - Soy Free
  • SeF - Seafood/Shellfish/Fish Free
  • SuF - Sulphites Free
  • SmF - Sesame Free
  • DF - Dairy Free
  • GF - Gluten Free
  • LF - Lactose Free
  • V - Vegetarian
  • VG - Vegan
  • Pe - Pescatarian/Pescetarian
  • H - Halal
  • HF - Halal Friendly
  • K - Kosher

Have additional questions?

Please reach out to Hampr's team, we'd love to help however we can and are ever-committed to improving our platform to better support effective decision making.