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HealthCited

How we make and check our content

Organised around the four questions health researchers use to judge information online: who wrote it, where it comes from, who pays for it, and how current it is.

Who writes and reviews it

Every article shows its byline, and once our dietitian team has reviewed it, the review date. If an article shows no review date, it hasn’t been signed off yet. The team’s qualifications and areas of practice are on the team page.

Right now, 0 of 3 published articles have completed review. The rest show no review date, and shouldn’t be read as reviewed guidance until they do.

Where the information comes from

Articles list their references at the end, numbered, with links to the original source where one exists.

Food values are stored per 100 g and converted to everyday servings. Each food page shows whether its values have been checked by our dietitian team. Recipe nutrition is computed from the ingredients’ food records, never typed in by hand.

How we make money

We earn money from paid plans, consultations and programmes with our dietitian team. Their prices are shown before you request anything.

We don’t show advertising. If that ever changes, this page will say so first, and advertising will never appear on consultation pages.

How current it is

Every article shows when it was published and, once reviewed, when it was reviewed, so you can judge how current it is.

The review workflow

New articles move through these steps in order, and our software won’t let one skip dietitian review. Articles that were added before a review show no review date until a dietitian signs them off.

  1. Draft

    Written so that each claim can be traced to a listed reference.

  2. Dietitian review

    A registered dietitian from our dietitian team checks it clinically. Only a dietitian can move an article past this step; an administrator cannot skip it.

  3. Fact check

    Figures and quotations are checked against the cited sources.

  4. Editor

    Clarity, tone and the headline are checked before publishing.

What this site is not

  • A diagnosis or a treatment plan. General information can’t account for your history, medicines or test results.
  • A replacement for your doctor. If you take medication for a condition, check before changing how you eat.
  • Finished. Only values and articles that have been reviewed show a review date.

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The four questions follow the JAMA benchmarks for health information online: Silberg WM, Lundberg GD, Musacchio RA. Assessing, controlling, and assuring the quality of medical information on the Internet. JAMA. 1997;277(15):1244–1245.