Courses, cuisines, diets and keywords
Organising recipes by course, cuisine and diet, and adding keywords for search.
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Scrumptious has three ways to group recipes, plus free-form keywords.
| Examples | Used for | |
|---|---|---|
| Course | Dessert, Dinner, Breakfast | Google (recipeCategory), Recipe Grid filters |
| Cuisine | Italian, Mexican, Thai | Google (recipeCuisine), Recipe Grid filters |
| Diet | Vegan, Gluten-free | Google (suitableForDiet, for the diets Google recognises), Recipe Grid filters |
| Keywords | weeknight, one-pot | Google (keywords) |
Adding them
Inside a post (Recipe Card block): in the sidebar, open Course, cuisine & diet, type a name and press Enter. Add as many as you like. Start typing to pick an existing one; a name that doesn’t exist yet is created.
On the recipe’s own screen: use the Courses, Cuisines and Diets panels in the sidebar, like WordPress categories and tags.
Keywords are in the sidebar under Details → Keywords, separated by commas.
Let AI suggest them
With AI set up, Scrumptious can fill these in for you.
- Add the recipe’s title and ingredients.
- In the block sidebar, open Course, cuisine & diet and click Suggest with AI.
- Suggestions show as buttons under Course, Cuisine and Diet. Click one to add it, or Add all. Ones marked (new) aren’t on your site yet; clicking them creates them.
- Save the recipe as usual.
How it decides:
- It reuses your existing courses, cuisines and diets whenever one fits, so you don’t end up with Main, Mains and Main dish. Names that differ only in case, spaces, hyphens or a plural s count as the same, and so do diets Google treats as the same (Plant-based finds your Vegan).
- It suggests 1–2 courses, at most one cuisine, and up to three diets.
- Diets are only suggested when every ingredient fits. For example, a recipe with regular soy sauce isn’t suggested as gluten-free, and one with honey isn’t vegan. When unsure, it leaves the diet out.
Always check diets before you publish. Readers with allergies and intolerances rely on them, and AI can still make mistakes.
Also automatic:
- Paste & Parse with AI fills in course, cuisine and diet along with the rest of the recipe. See Paste & Parse.
- Import from a link (Scrumptious Pro) uses the page’s own course and cuisine. If the page doesn’t give one, and AI is set up, AI fills in the missing ones. See Import from a link.
Each suggestion is one short AI request, billed by your provider like Paste & Parse (usually well under a cent). Without AI, the button is replaced by a Set up AI link.
Managing the lists
Go to Recipes → Courses, Recipes → Cuisines or Recipes → Diets to add, rename or delete entries, just like post tags.
These lists are separate from your blog’s categories and tags, so recipe organisation doesn’t clutter your blog.
Where they show
- In Google’s recipe data (course, cuisine, keywords, and diet).
- As filters in the Recipe Grid block — e.g. a grid of Dessert recipes. Use a grid on a page to make a “Desserts” or “Vegan recipes” page.
Google recognises these diets: Diabetic, Gluten-free, Halal, Hindu, Kosher, Low-calorie, Low-fat, Low-lactose (or Lactose-free), Low-salt (or Low-sodium), Vegan (or Plant-based) and Vegetarian. Other diets (Keto, Paleo, Dairy-free…) work on your site and in grids but aren’t sent to Google, which has no value for them.
Tip: Keep courses broad (Dessert, Main, Side, Breakfast, Snack, Drink). Use keywords for specifics.
