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Investigating the Ability of Large Language Models to Analyze Recipes for Diabetes

The paper investigates how well large language models (LLMs) can assess whether recipes are suitable for people with diabetes. It introduces a benchmark of 7,607 recipes, split evenly between suitable and unsuitable, and tests three prompting strategies that vary in how much diabetes dietary guidance they provide. Results show that LLMs tend to be cautious in labeling recipes as suitable, and those that can reason with dietary guidelines—particularly Mistral‑7B and Llama‑70B—perform best.

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The paper examines how large language models (LLMs) can assess whether recipes are suitable for people with diabetes. It introduces a benchmark of 7,607 recipes, split evenly between suitable and unsuitable, and tests three prompting strategies that embed varying levels of diabetes dietary guidelines. Results show that LLMs tend to be cautious in labeling recipes as suitable, and those that can reason with the guidelines—particularly Mistral‑7B and Llama‑70B—perform best.

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