FoodRef · Scanned Plate
Tostones with refried beans, guacamole, and avocado salad
1 approve · 5 caution · 5 avoid
Cheferee's Consensus
Vegan rate this plate highest, Carnivore lowest — a 8.5-point spread. They are not reading different evidence; they are applying different rules to the same plate.
What each diet says
Each score is that framework's own position on this plate, scored as a whole meal — not the average of its parts.
- DASH6.8
- Mediterranean6.5
- Vegan9.5
- Carnivore1.0
- Paleo2.5
- Keto2.0
- Low-FODMAP2.5
- Whole302.0
- Zone4.5
- Anti-Inflammatory6.0
- GLP-16.2
The plate is plant-based, low in sodium sources, and rich in potassium from plantains, beans, avocado, and tomatoes, which DASH favors, but the fried tostones and likely added fat/salt in refried beans keep it from a top score.
Avocado, tomatoes, and beans align well with Mediterranean principles, but tostones are deep-fried (not the tradition's preferred preparation) and the plate lacks olive oil, fish, whole grains, or leafy greens central to the pattern.
Every component — tostones, refried beans (assuming lard-free), guacamole, avocado salad, tomatoes, and corn — is plant-based, making this an essentially fully vegan plate.
Carnivore excludes all plant foods, and this plate is 100% plants: plantains, beans, avocado, tomatoes, and corn are all disqualifying.
Paleo forbids legumes (refried beans) and corn outright, and the deep-fried tostones with refined frying oil further conflict with the framework despite the avocado and tomatoes being compliant.
With tostones, refried beans, and corn making up over half the plate, the carbohydrate load is far too high for ketosis, even though guacamole and avocado salad contribute healthy fats.
Refried beans, avocado in the large quantities shown (guacamole plus avocado salad), and corn are all high-FODMAP, making this plate problematic for anyone following the protocol.
Legumes (refried beans) and corn are explicitly banned on Whole30, and commercially fried tostones would typically use non-compliant oils, disqualifying the plate.
The plate skews heavily toward carbohydrates (tostones, beans, corn) and fats (guacamole, avocado) with essentially no protein, breaking Zone's 40/30/30 macro balance.
Avocado, tomatoes, beans, and plantains provide fiber, monounsaturated fats, and antioxidants that fight inflammation, but the deep-fried tostones (likely in refined seed oil) pull the score down.
High fiber from beans, avocado, and plantains supports satiety and slower gastric emptying that GLP-1 users benefit from, but the fried starch load and near-absence of lean protein make this a suboptimal composition.
Food by food
Our catalog scores for each item. The plate's score above is a judgment on the whole meal, so it will not match the average of these.
Plantain~28% of the plate5.8▾
- Whole309.0
- Keto1.0
- Vegan9.0
- Low-FODMAP6.0
- Paleo6.0
- Carnivore1.0
- DASH5.0
- Zone2.0
- Anti-Inflammatory5.0
- GLP-1 Friendly4.0
- Mediterranean5.0
Refried beans~18% of the plate4.1▾
- Keto1.0
- Whole301.0
- Paleo1.0
- Mediterranean4.0
- Carnivore1.0
- Low-FODMAP2.0
- GLP-1 Friendly5.0
- DASH4.0
- Zone2.0
- Anti-Inflammatory5.0
- Vegan6.0
Guacamole~15% of the plate5.5▾
- Keto9.0
- Vegan9.0
- Paleo9.0
- Mediterranean8.0
- Carnivore1.0
- Whole305.0
- Low-FODMAP8.0
- DASH8.0
- Zone9.0
- Anti-Inflammatory9.0
- GLP-1 Friendly5.0
avocado salad~25% of the plate · not in our catalog yet▾
We don't have per-diet catalog scores for this food yet, so it has no breakdown here. It still counted toward the plate's score above.
Cherry tomatoes~8% of the plate5.5▾
- Low-FODMAP8.0
- Zone8.0
- Paleo9.0
- GLP-1 Friendly8.0
- Anti-Inflammatory8.0
- Mediterranean9.0
- Vegan10.0
- Keto5.0
- Carnivore1.0
- Whole3010.0
- DASH9.0
Corn~6% of the plate6.1▾
- Keto1.0
- Vegan9.0
- Paleo1.0
- Carnivore1.0
- Whole301.0
- Low-FODMAP8.0
- DASH5.0
- Zone2.0
- Anti-Inflammatory5.0
- GLP-1 Friendly4.0
- Mediterranean5.0
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