Editorial Policy

Every food page on this site is generated from the same data pipeline: raw USDA values in, a rated page out. There is no manual rewriting of numbers, and no value is invented to make a page look better.

No medical review — by design. This site has no doctor or dietitian on staff, and no page here is medically reviewed. That is deliberate: the pipeline is mechanical (measured values in, a fixed rule applied, a rating out), so there is no clinical judgement inside the pipeline for a reviewer to check. Clinical judgement lives with your care team, not with us — see the medical review policy for the full reasoning.

Our editorial rules are simple:

• Only measured values from USDA are presented as facts. Estimates are labelled as estimates.
• Ratings are computed, not editorialised — the tier comes from a fixed rule applied to the same three minerals on every page.
• The rating methodology is public on the methodology page, so any visitor can re-check how a rating was reached.
• We update the database when the underlying USDA releases change, and we keep a record of what changed.

We write in plain English, we avoid medical-sounding absolutes ("safe" / "avoid"), and we describe foods as lower-risk or higher-risk instead — because the right answer for one person is not the right answer for another.

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