How we write
How articles here are researched, drafted, checked and corrected.
The short version
Every article on this site is drafted with the help of AI writing tools and then read, checked and edited by a person before it is published. We link to the sources we used so you can check them yourself. Our images are generated by an image model and are not photographs.
We would rather tell you that plainly than let you work it out.
Why we say so
A lot of what you read about food online is now written this way and does not admit it. We think the disclosure matters more than the technique. What should be judged is whether the article is accurate, whether it cites something real, and whether it is honest about uncertainty. Those are the things we try to get right, and the things we would like to be held to.
It also sets a limit on us. Because every piece is read end to end by a person before it goes out, we publish a few articles a week rather than a few a day. The pace is set by how much a human can genuinely check.
Where the subjects come from
Every morning a scan reads what is being published about food and health: a set of news searches, new papers in the medical literature, and UK government publications. It groups what it finds by subject and ranks it by how many separate outlets are covering it, how new it is and whether there is a study behind it.
That produces a shortlist. A person picks from the shortlist. No article is ever commissioned automatically.
What we check before publishing
- Every number, study reference and causal claim carries a link to where it came from. A sentence that says research shows something, without saying whose research, does not go out.
- We check the link works and points at what we say it does, at the moment of publishing.
- We quote sparingly. One short quote per source, in quotation marks, attributed and linked. We do not reproduce other people's articles, and we do not keep copies of them.
- We avoid banned and overreaching claims. No detoxing, no boosting immunity, no superfoods, nothing that cures or prevents a disease. Where a health claim is authorised on the Great Britain nutrition and health claims register, we give the conditions attached to it rather than the headline alone.
- British English and metric units, with an oven temperature or an imperial measure given as well only where it genuinely helps.
Those checks are automated and every one of them blocks publication. But they verify traceability, not truth: a confidently wrong article with a real link attached would pass all of them. That is what the human read is for, and why we do not describe an article as checked when what we mean is the links resolve.
What we will not write
No first-person experience. We have not tasted it, tested it, cooked it or lived on it for a week, and we will not pretend otherwise.
No reviews, no testimonials, no reader quotes we did not actually receive, and no poll results. No prices, no stock and no launch dates. No product recommendations of any kind.
Nothing about weight-loss medication, pregnancy, feeding babies under a year old, or eating disorders. These are the biggest subjects in this field and we are deliberately leaving them alone, because they need a qualified person and we do not have one.
We criticise claims, never the outlet that reported them.
Health claims and medical advice
UK law restricts what can be said about food and health. We apply the Great Britain nutrition and health claims register as our own editorial standard, which is stricter than the law requires of a publication, because a reader cannot tell the difference between a claim made in an advert and a claim made in an article.
Nothing here is medical advice, and none of it is a substitute for advice from your own doctor, pharmacist or a registered dietitian. If you have a health condition, are pregnant, or are making a significant change to your diet, please speak to your GP or start with the NHS Eatwell Guide.
Images
The pictures on this site are generated by an image model. They are not photographs, no real kitchen or person appears in them, and they never show a product you can buy. Where an image would need to be a photograph to be honest, we do not use one.
Corrections
If we get something wrong we want to know, and we fix it in public. Email hello@healthysnacking.co.uk with the page and what you think is wrong. What happens next is set out in our corrections policy.
Who is responsible
Healthy Snacking is published by Fleeta Limited, company number 16675897, registered in England and Wales. Full details are on our about page. The byline on our articles is the publication rather than a person, because we would rather name the company that is accountable than invent a writer.
Last updated 20 September 2026.