Do you have any eating requirements or allergies?

Question

Eating requirements: 食物要求

Allergy: 过敏

But I came across another term which I can't seem to find. A waitress in China asked me if I had any eating requirements/allergies but she used a term that I think had 口 in it. I think it was 2 characters with 口 being either the first or second.

你有什么 口X 吗？

你有什么 X口 吗？

Have I misremembered or does such a term exist ?

Answer 1

戒口 (restrict from eating)

to not eat something for health reasons

For example, someone can't eat deep-fried food because of high blood pressure, or eat shellfish due to an allergy

usually under a doctor's order

有咳嗽時對生冷食物要戒口

糖尿病患者對甜品要戒口

我沒敏感症不用戒口

Answer 2

忌口/口忌 - dietetic restrictions; abstain from certain food due to illness or other health issues.

• 您有口忌嗎? - Do you have dietetic restrictions?

• 有. 因為忌口, 我得避免高鉀食品. - Yes, I do. Because of dietetic restrictions, I must avoid foods with very high potassium content.

禁口/口禁 - dietetic prohibitions; prohibited from certain food due to illness or other health issues.

• 醫生說什麽東西你要禁口? - Did the doctor prescribe dietetic prohibitions?

• 有, 醫生給我的口禁是禁食海鮮. - Yes, he did. He prohibits me from eating seafood.

Answer 3

I believe that's忌口/口忌

for 忌口， it's like you can't eat it for some objective reasons.

忌 --to be jealous; to envy; to hate -- to envy --(literary, or in compounds) to fear; to dread --to avoid --to abstain; to drop; to stop; to give up (a bad habit) --to taboo; to prohibit --taboo

Answer 4

忌口, 戒口, 禁口, Which one?

忌口 is the one.

(1) It has been formally used in the Medicine Prescriptions by the professionals for a long time.

(2) 忌 means 禁忌(忌禁), 戒忌(忌戒), 忌讳(讳忌). The word 忌口 can substitude "戒口", "禁口", etc.

(3) It has less ambiguous (歧义) than 戒口 - 借口, 禁口 - 进口.