Editorial policy

A recipe page may start from a cooking video or another source. We publish a structured ingredient list and method, with original guidance where we have added it. Some older pages still have little or no original guidance and are under review. We do not present a creator’s caption, script, narration, footage or photography as our own work.

When a recipe comes from a creator, we aim to name them and link to the source. Missing amounts may be shown as marked estimates; salt and pepper can remain “to taste”. We are correcting older pages that present incomplete methods or unsupported claims.

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 built from named sources and are not derived from videos. AI may help prepare a draft, but the named author is responsible for the finished article. 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 publication. We do not present an unperformed kitchen test or invented personal story as first-hand experience.

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 — to prepare translations, and to assist with guide drafts. Guides receive a human editorial read before publication. A quantity we estimate is marked so readers can distinguish it from one stated by the creator.

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.

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