A DIFFERENT WAY TO DISCOVER

A fresh starting point for “what’s for dinner?”

When nothing on your usual list appeals, try a different way in. Taranify suggests cuisines from your mood responses so you can explore something that sounds good to you.

  1. 01

    Choose what draws you in

    Pick the color you’re more drawn to in each pair, at this moment.

  2. 02

    Check in with your mood

    Answer the short follow-up questions about how you’re feeling.

  3. 03

    Cuisine suggestions

    Discover cuisines and food ideas to use as inspiration for your next meal.

THE SAME EIGHT MEALS

Most kitchens run on a very short list.

Left alone, cooking settles into a rotation of about eight meals. This is efficient, and it is also why the question of what to eat feels so tiring by the end of the day — not because there is nothing to make, but because the list you are consulting is one you know by heart and are already faintly bored of.

Asking a different question is often enough to break the loop. Not what do I have in, or what did we have last night, but something nearer to what would actually suit this evening. Cuisine turns out to be a useful level to think at: broad enough to open genuinely different options, specific enough to act on before you lose interest.

APPETITE AND MOOD

What appeals shifts with the day.

People notice this without needing it explained. Something warm and uncomplicated on a difficult evening. Something sharp and bright when there is energy to spend. Something slow and involved when the cooking is the point rather than the obstacle. The state you are in shapes what sounds good long before nutrition or convenience get a say in it.

Taranify reads that state from your color choices and suggests cuisines to explore from there. It is a prompt for thinking about a meal differently, not a claim about what your body needs. Those are two very different things, and only one of them belongs in a color quiz.

PLEASE READ THIS ONE

It does not know anything about you.

This is a discovery quiz, not nutrition advice, and it should form no part of a health decision. Taranify does not know your allergies, your intolerances, your religious or ethical restrictions, your medications, or anything else a doctor or a dietitian would need before suggesting what you eat.

Whatever comes back, check the ingredients yourself — particularly if you or anyone eating with you has an allergy. A cuisine suggestion is a direction to think in. Everything after that is yours to verify.

COOK OR ORDER

Whether to cook is its own question.

The same suggestion means two completely different evenings depending on your energy. A cuisine you would happily spend two hours on come Saturday is a miserable prospect at eight on a Thursday, and the difference has nothing to do with whether you like the food.

So it is worth being honest about how much you have left in you before committing to the idea. A tired evening plus a suggestion that wants three pans is a signal to take the idea and find the shortest version of it — the takeaway, the traybake, the thing with four ingredients — rather than to throw the idea out.

Taranify suggests a direction rather than a recipe partly for this reason. A direction survives being simplified. A recipe usually does not.

A FEW USEFUL DETAILS

About the food quiz.

Read about the approach
What does the food quiz recommend?

Taranify suggests cuisines and food ideas based on your quiz responses. Use the results as inspiration when deciding what to eat.

Are these nutrition or dietary recommendations?

No. This is a food discovery quiz, not a nutrition assessment. It does not check your allergies, dietary restrictions, or nutritional needs.

Does the quiz order food for me?

No. Taranify suggests ideas. You decide what to cook or order and check the ingredients yourself.

Does the quiz give me recipes?

It suggests cuisines and food ideas rather than specific recipes. What you do with a suggestion — cook it, order it, adapt it to whatever is in the fridge — is up to you.

What if I have allergies or dietary restrictions?

The quiz does not know about them and cannot account for them. Check every ingredient yourself before cooking or ordering, and treat any suggestion that conflicts with a restriction as simply not applicable to you.

Does it know what is in my kitchen?

No. Suggestions are not filtered by what you have in, so some will need a shop and some will not. If you want something you can make tonight, take the suggestion as a direction and adapt it.

Is the quiz free?

Yes. You can take the quiz and get recommendations without creating a Taranify account.

How should I choose a color?

For each pair, choose the color you feel more drawn to at this moment. Go with your first instinct rather than your usual favorite color or the mood you want to have.

Can I get different recommendations?

Use Regenerate to get more suggestions from the same quiz responses. If your mood has changed, start over and choose your colors again.