112 foods · clear verdicts
What's safe to eat when you're pregnant
Not a list of forbidden things. Most of what you want is fine — it's usually how it was cooked or stored that matters, and that's the part nobody explains. Every entry here says safe, take care or avoid, and then why.
Browse by category
Pick the aisle you're standing in. Each page lists every food in that group with its verdict and the reasoning.
- Beans and legumes2 safe
- Beverages7 safe3 care3 avoid
- Bread1 safe
- Canned food1 safe
- Cereals1 safe
- Dairy products8 safe1 avoid
- Desserts15 safe3 avoid
- Eggs1 safe
- Fastfood5 safe
- Fish2 safe1 care2 avoid
- Fruit2 safe
- Herbs1 safe2 avoid
- Meat4 safe1 care6 avoid
- Mushrooms1 safe
- Nuts1 safe
- Oils1 safe
- Poultry4 safe1 care1 avoid
- Ready meals1 safe
- Salad3 safe1 avoid
- Sauces2 safe1 avoid
- Seafood5 safe3 avoid
- Seitan1 safe
- Soups1 safe
- Soy1 safe
- Spices3 safe1 avoid
- Sushi2 safe3 avoid
- Vegetables1 safe2 avoid
Track what you actually eat
Knowing a food is safe is half of it. In the app you can photograph a meal and Hello Belly reads it — logging protein, iron, folate, calcium, DHA, choline, fibre and caffeine against pregnancy targets, without you typing a single gram. It reads supplement labels the same way, so your prenatal counts toward the same daily picture instead of sitting in a separate list.
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