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 and Whole30 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
- Mediterranean6.2
- Vegan9.5
- Carnivore1.0
- Paleo2.5
- Keto2.0
- Low-FODMAP2.0
- Whole301.0
- Zone4.5
- Anti-Inflammatory5.8
- GLP-16.0
Entirely plant-based with beans, avocado, tomatoes and corn provides potassium and fiber aligned with DASH, but the large share of fried tostones adds sodium and refined starch cooked in oil, which pulls the score down.
Avocado, tomatoes and legumes fit the Mediterranean pattern well, but the plate is dominated by fried plantains and lacks whole grains, greens, olive oil, fish or nuts that define the diet.
Every item on the plate — tostones, refried beans, guacamole, avocado salad, tomatoes and corn — is plant-based, making this a near-perfect vegan meal assuming the refried beans use no lard.
Carnivore excludes all plant foods, and this plate is 100% plants — plantains, beans, avocado, tomatoes and corn — so it is a categorical rejection.
Paleo forbids legumes and corn, both present here, and the tostones are a fried starchy carb; only the avocado and tomatoes are compliant, so the plate largely fails the framework.
Tostones, refried beans and corn together deliver a very high carbohydrate load that will blow past any ketogenic threshold, despite the fat from guacamole and avocado.
Refried beans and avocado in these portions are high-FODMAP, and guacamole typically contains onion and garlic, making nearly half the plate problematic for this framework.
Whole30 categorically excludes all legumes and corn, and the refried beans plus corn plus fried plantains together violate multiple rules outright.
The plate is heavily skewed toward carbohydrate from plantains, beans and corn with fat from avocado and guacamole, but contains essentially no protein, breaking Zone's 40/30/30 balance.
Avocado, tomatoes and beans supply antioxidants and fiber that fit the framework, but the fried tostones introduce oxidized oils and a refined starch spike that undercut the anti-inflammatory profile.
Beans, avocado and tomatoes offer fiber and satiety helpful on GLP-1 therapy, but the meal has no lean protein and a heavy fried-starch component, which is suboptimal for protein targets and gastric tolerance.
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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