Research & editorial standards

Useful evidence, with the limits left attached.

This site publishes practical food and cooking information. When a page touches health, the job is to explain what good evidence supports, what it does not support, and where general food information stops.

Start with the question a reader is actually asking

Each health Guide is built around a distinct reader question. Search language can help identify that question, but it does not decide the answer and it is not repeated through the prose to manufacture keyword density.

Prefer evidence that can carry the claim

Current clinical guidelines and authoritative health bodies are preferred for recommendations and care boundaries. Systematic reviews are used to understand a body of evidence. Individual trials and observational studies are used when they answer a narrower question or explain why a recommendation exists.

A study is not promoted merely because it is newer. Its design, population, intervention and outcome have to match the statement being made.

Keep a claim ledger behind the prose

Health statements are linked to source records and bounded claims before they are used in a public Guide. A claim can be supported, conditional or prohibited. Its boundary records the part that must not be inferred — for example, a supplement trial does not prove that using the culinary ingredient treats a condition.

Related claims and sources are grouped into evidence dossiers so a Guide is not assembled from disconnected quotations. Public pages show the sources a reader needs; internal claim and review controls are not exposed as pseudo-authority.

Citations sit with the section they support

Evidence-led sections carry their own source links, followed by the complete source list for the page. This makes it possible to see which source supports which part of the explanation instead of receiving a long bibliography with no connection to the prose.

Recipes stay recipes

A recipe may illustrate a food pattern, texture, meal structure or practical constraint. That relationship is not evidence that the recipe treats a disease, prevents an outcome, is safe for every reader, or replaces individualised dietetic or medical care.

Updates follow the evidence, not a calendar alarm

This site records when evidence was checked. A materially changed guideline, corrected citation, new product boundary or explicit evidence refresh triggers review of the affected sources, claims, dossiers and Guides. Pages are not automatically rewritten simply because a date has passed.

Corrections are made where the error lives

If a factual, bibliographic, relationship or wording error is found, the affected canonical record is corrected and its dependent public surfaces are rebuilt and checked. Material health guidance is rechecked against the supporting source rather than patched only in the visible paragraph.

If you spot something that needs checking, contact and corrections.

Clear English is part of accuracy

Technical terminology is used when it changes meaning, then explained in ordinary language. We avoid miracle-food framing, unnecessary restriction, causal language for observational associations and certainty that the evidence does not provide.

This site provides general food and practical cooking information. It does not diagnose conditions, interpret an individual’s laboratory results, prescribe medicines or replace care from an appropriately qualified health professional.