Editorial Standards

These are the rules we hold ourselves to. They are enforced in the build, not just written down here — a page that breaks one of them fails a check before it can be published.

Where a recipe comes from

Every recipe on this site is in one of three states, and we track which one internally for every single recipe:

Preserved

The recipe came through from its original source with its ingredients and method intact. We corrected formatting and removed unsupported claims, but the cooking information is the source's.

Repaired

The original recipe data was incomplete or damaged, and we reconstructed it from the rest of that same recipe's own content — its written method, its ingredient mentions, its own notes.

Editorially developed

Source information was missing, so our editorial team wrote the missing parts as originalTasty Recipes work, using the dish's established identity and standard technique. Times and yields in a developed recipe are considered editorial estimates.

What we remove

A large amount of what arrived with these recipes was not true. We removed it rather than tidy it up:

• Claims of personal cooking experience, written as if by someone who does not exist.
• Invented family reactions and testing stories.
• Dietary labels — gluten-free, keto, low-carb, dairy-free — asserted without evidence.
• Health claims, including specific ones such as a stated reduction in saturated fat.
• Self-praising language that told you a dish was remarkable instead of telling you how to cook it.

Where a recipe genuinely lists an ingredient like gluten-free flour, that stays. It is an ingredient, not a claim about the finished dish.

Food safety

Where a dish carries a real safety requirement, we state it at the step where it matters and we take the figure from an authority — the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service and FoodSafety.gov — rather than from another recipe site. We record the source and the date we took it.

We do not paste a generic warning onto every recipe. A safety note that appears everywhere stops being read.

What we will not do

• Invent ratings, review counts, or reader comments.
• Publish nutrition figures we have not verified.
• Claim a recipe is kitchen-tested when it has not been.
• Claim chef or dietitian credentials.
• Attribute a recipe to a person who does not exist.
• Describe a page as popular or trending without data behind it.

When we cannot meet the standard

Some pages cannot honestly reach it. A post whose recipe cannot be reconstructed, or whose identity is genuinely unclear, is kept out of our archives, categories, search and recommendations rather than published as a thin page. We would rather show you fewer recipes than pad the site with ones we cannot stand behind.

Corrections

When we find that something we published was wrong, we correct it and record what changed. Recipes are re-checked when their source information changes.

Recipes and articles are maintained by the Tasty Recipes Editorial Team.