Editorial policy

A recipe page starts from a cooking video. We publish the ingredients and the method — facts about how a dish is made — together with our own notes on the parts the video skips. We do not reproduce a creator’s caption, script, narration, footage or photography.

Every such page names the creator and links to the original video, and we would rather you watched it. Quantities are converted to something you can shop from, steps are ordered and numbered, and anything the video left ambiguous is flagged as ambiguous rather than quietly invented. Where a creator makes a nutrition claim, the page attributes it to them; we do not restate it as our own.

Creators can have their recipes removed on request, with no questions asked — email hello@nourishible.com.

Nutrition figures come from published datasets — principally the UK’s CoFID and the USDA’s FoodData Central — and each card names the dataset and entry it used. Allergen status is stated against the UK list of 14 declarable allergens.

Age-by-age serving guidance is quoted from named public-health sources, the NHS and CDC among them, and the card links to the page it came from. Where no published guidance addresses a food, the card says so and stops. We do not infer one food’s guidance from a similar food, and we do not add a rule because it sounds sensible. A card with no age guidance is a correct card, not an unfinished one.

The app never tells you a food is “safe”. It tells you whether published guidance raises a flag, which is a different and more honest claim.

Guides are researched and written from named sources and are not derived from videos. Each load- bearing factual claim is traced to a source that was actually opened and read, and drafts go through a separate review pass whose job is to check every such claim against its source before anything is published.

Guides touching infant feeding get an additional adversarial read, from a paediatric perspective and a parent perspective, looking for advice that is technically true but unsafe in practice.

We use automated tools for the first pass on a video — a draft ingredient list and rough steps — and to produce translations. A person reads the result before it is published, and extractions where an important detail was uncertain are held for review rather than published.

We do not let an automated tool decide a clinical question. Doses, age thresholds, allergen status, choking risk and administration advice are quoted from a named source or left out entirely. No model gets a vote on whether something is safe to feed a baby.

Nothing on this site is reviewed by a clinician, and none of it is medical advice. We report what official guidance says and show you where it says it. For advice about your own child, your health visitor, GP, paediatrician or dietitian knows things we never will.

We would rather be corrected than be wrong for another month. Ingredient cards carry a Report a problem button, and anything else can go to hello@nourishible.com. Health and safety corrections are handled first. If a page contradicts current guidance we take it down while we check, rather than leaving it up pending a fix.

More about who we are is on the about page, and ways to reach us are on the contact page.