How it works
Mesava doesn't guess from a photo of the menu. Restaurants enter their dishes and ingredients themselves, and Mesava compares that list to the allergens and diets in your profile. Here is exactly what each flag means and what it can't tell you.
No flagged ingredients
Nothing in the ingredients the restaurant published matches your profile. Kitchens change recipes and cross-contact can still happen, so confirm with your server.
May contain your allergens
The kitchen flagged possible traces or hasn't published a full ingredient list for this dish. Ask before you order.
Contains your allergens
A published ingredient matches something you avoid.
Every menu on Mesava is entered by the restaurant in its own dashboard, dish by dish, with the ingredients listed out. When a kitchen can't rule out traces or hasn't finished a dish's ingredient list, that dish reads May contain rather than pretending to be clear.
Because the source is the restaurant, flags improve as menus are kept current — and you can see at a glance which places take it seriously.
Cross-contact in a shared fryer, on a grill or from prep surfaces doesn't appear in an ingredient list. Neither do last-minute substitutions or an ingredient a supplier changed. Mesava also isn't medical advice and doesn't replace an allergy action plan or your epinephrine.
Use Mesava to narrow the menu down to a handful of realistic options, then ask the kitchen about those specific dishes. That conversation is shorter and far more useful than asking about the whole menu.
Start a party, share the invite code or QR, and everyone's allergies and diets combine into one view. The strictest need wins: if one person at the table avoids it, the dish is flagged for the table.
Set your allergens and diets in Mesava, then browse nearby restaurants that publish their ingredients. Each one is rated Great, Okay or Poor for your profile before you leave home, and you can open the menu to see which individual dishes are flagged.
Usually a menu nobody can verify: no ingredient list, no answer about cross-contact, and staff who can't say how a dish is prepared. A restaurant that publishes its ingredients and keeps them current is far easier to eat at safely.
No. Flags describe the published ingredient list only. Kitchens change recipes, share fryers and prep surfaces, and may not list every component. For a severe allergy, always confirm with the kitchen.
Pick your allergens and diets, then every Mesava menu is checked against them for you or your whole party. Free for guests.
Create your free profileMesava flags dishes from the ingredients restaurants publish themselves. It isn't medical advice and cross-contact is always possible — for a severe allergy, confirm with the kitchen before ordering.