Editorial policy

FoodHQ optimises for being right rather than for being large. Where the two conflict, coverage loses.

What we publish

• Nothing is invented. No source, location, figure, review or credential is ever fabricated. Where something cannot be verified it is left unresolved and said to be unresolved.
• Evidence comes before publication, never after. Statements are not published on the expectation that support will be found later.
• Different kinds of knowing are kept apart. A measured value, a professional consensus, a long-standing tradition and an editorial interpretation are recorded as different things and shown as different things.
• Traditional practice is evidence about people, not about food. That something has long been done is recorded as tradition and never presented as a mechanism.

What we refuse

• "Best" and "healthiest" claims. Superlatives need evidence that rarely exists, and usually smuggle in a preference.
• Nutrition and diet advice. FoodHQ explains how food behaves, not what you should eat.
• Product reviews and brand rankings. Equipment is described by what it does to the cooking, never by make or model.
• Recipe framing. No ingredient lists, no step-by-step instructions, no meal suggestions.

Judgement, and who is accountable for it

Some statements are not findings but decisions — that two terms should not be conflated, or that one concept is a narrower case of another. These are recorded against a named person who takes responsibility for them, and they are never presented as though a source had established them.

That person is FoodHQ’s operator and editor. This is an editorial role, not a professional qualification. It confers no standing to approve food-safety guidance, and the system will not accept it as such.

Commercial separation

No commercial arrangement affects what is published, what a page says, what order anything appears in, or which sources are pursued. There are currently no advertisements or affiliate links anywhere on this site; see Advertising and commercial disclosure for how that would work if it changes.