Scientia · Cura · Cibus
CERNERE
Knowledge · Care · Food. CERNERE publishes evidence-checked recipes and cooking guides for people eating around a health condition — coeliac disease, reflux, gastroparesis, kidney stones, psoriasis, fatty liver, a jaw that will not open far.
Three things make that different from the rest of the internet's recipe supply, and all three can be checked in the next click. Every health claim is cited, and the claims are published in full for each topic — includingthe ones we refuse to make. Per-serving nutrition is computed from measured quantities against national food-composition data rather than asserted. And the recipes and seven-day meal plans are complete and free: not samples, not gated, and not the same recipes as the books.
Why CERNERE?
The name is drawn from the Latin cernere: to distinguish, discern or sift. That is the job here. Research is rarely a neat list of foods that are simply “good” or “bad”, and practical cooking is rarely solved by repeating a nutrition headline. The work is to separate useful evidence from weak claims, apply judgement, and then make the result usable in an ordinary kitchen.
The three-part motto is the same idea in shorter form: Scientia for knowledge, Cura for care and Cibus for food. None of those works well alone. Evidence without practical care can produce unusable advice; care without evidence can drift into confident folklore; and neither matters much if the food is not worth eating.
What the site is for
The site is intentionally useful without an account. It contains complete recipes, seven-day starter weeks, researched Guides, printables and browser-local planning tools. Health-adjacent collections explain what a recipe relationship means and what it does not mean. Evidence Guides link back to the sources they rely on rather than turning individual ingredients into treatment claims.
The commercial model is simple: the free material stays complete and useful. Paid books have to earn the sale by being larger, easier to navigate, more convenient to keep, and better suited to sustained use in print or ebook form.
CERNERE is the publishing identity used for the recipes, Guides and tools on this site. Individual medical advice, diagnosis and treatment remain outside its scope.
How the evidence is handled
Health-adjacent Guides use source-linked evidence records and explicit claim boundaries rather than ingredient-as-treatment marketing. Read the research and editorial standards for the source hierarchy, citation method and update approach.
Designed for different ways of using the site
The interface includes responsive layouts, Easy Read mode, keyboard-friendly controls and print-first outputs. The accessibility statement explains what is designed and what is deliberately not claimed.
What CERNERE publishes
Books, and a free seven-day recipe week behind every one of them. The recipes on this site are written separately from the books and stay free whether or not a book is ever bought.
Out now
The Practical Psoriasis Cookbook
100 Everyday Recipes and Evidence-Informed Guidance
Mediterranean-style recipes, a 28-day meal plan and smarter shopping for practical everyday cooking.
Announced
Calcium-Oxalate Kidney Stone Prevention Cookbook
Everyday Recipes Built Around Hydration, Adequate Calcium, Lower Sodium and Smarter Meal Pairing
A practical cookbook built around hydration, adequate dietary calcium, lower sodium and smarter meal pairing for people working on recurrent calcium-oxalate stone prevention.
Announced
Coeliac Emergency Pantry
A Practical Pantry, Label and No-Power Planning Manual
A quantified emergency-pantry planning manual for people with coeliac disease, focused on pantry inventory, package-label verification, water and heat contingencies, rotation and practical household planning rather than a duplicate recipe collection.
Announced
Cooking with Arthritis
Everyday Recipes That Ask Less of Your Hands, Joints and Energy
Practical everyday meals designed to reduce avoidable grip, lifting, chopping and cleanup burden while keeping the food satisfying and familiar.
Announced
The Gastroparesis Kitchen
Practical recipes organised by physical form, with particle checkpoints that make texture easier to judge when gastric emptying is delayed.
Announced
The Jaw-Friendly Kitchen
64 practical recipes for satisfying adult meals made easier to eat when chewing is difficult.
Free seven-day weeks
Every topic covered here has a complete week of recipes with a shopping list and printable pages, free and without an account.
- Free 7-Day Psoriasis Meal Plan
- Free 7-Day Jaw-Friendly Meal Plan
- Free 7-Day Gastroparesis Meal Plan
- Free 7-Day Kidney-Stone Prevention Meal Plan
- Free 7-Day Gluten-Free Meal Plan for Coeliac Disease
- Free 7-Day Reflux-Aware Meal Plan
- Free 7-Day Diet-Quality Meal Plan for MASLD
How the work is done
The methods behind everything here are written down rather than implied:
- Research and editorial standards — which sources are used, how claims are bounded, and how corrections are handled.
- How recipe nutrition is calculated — every per-serving figure is computed from measured quantities against FSANZ AUSNUT food-composition data, never asserted.
- Measurements and unit switching — how metric and US customary quantities are handled without guessing across regional spoon sizes.
- Use and sharing — what may be reproduced, and on what terms.
