Editorial policy

What this site is

Nutrivitals is a nutrition and home-preparation resource. It covers the nutrient content of whole foods, the preparation of nutrient-dense foods at home, and home-made cosmetics.

It is not a disease-treatment site. Nothing published here treats, cures, reverses or manages a diagnosed medical condition, and we do not publish content addressing cancer, kidney disease, cardiac disease, tuberculosis, diabetes management, liver failure, autoimmune disease or infectious disease. That is a permanent scope decision, not a gap we intend to fill later.

Numbers and sources

Nutrient values are given only for raw whole foods, and every one cites the food composition table it was taken from — USDA FoodData Central, or the Indian Food Composition Tables 2017 for Indian produce. The reference identifier is printed alongside the value so you can check it against the source directly.

We do not state nutrient quantities for home preparations. The real content of a home-dried powder or an infusion varies several-fold with produce quality, soil, drying temperature and storage, and printing a number implies a precision that does not exist. We will say a preparation is a rich source of something. We will not tell you how many milligrams are in it.

We also do not express nutrient content as a percentage of a daily requirement. That framing turns a food into a supplement, which is not what it is.

Language

Certain words create a regulatory claim regardless of intent, so they are not used here: among them multivitamin, detox, cleanse, and any construction asserting that a food cures, treats or reverses a condition. This is enforced in software — a page containing them is rejected at publication rather than caught in proofreading.

How we use language models

Language models are used to draft educational material. They are not used to invent preparations, remedies or formulations, and they never generate content that instructs someone to do something with a stated ingredient, quantity or frequency. That material is a fixed, human-reviewed corpus; a model’s role over it is to help find the right existing entry, not to write a new one.

Every AI-assisted draft passes an automated safety and terminology check before an editor sees it, and a named human editor revises it and takes the byline. There is no unattributed content on this site. See our authors.

Safety rules that override editorial judgement

Some rules are not left to the person writing the page. A list of ingredients is refused outright — including several that appear regularly in traditional sources and are genuinely dangerous. Water-containing cosmetic formulations cannot be published without a named broad-spectrum preservative and its usage rate. Citrus juice and baking soda are refused on skin. Flowers are published only from a verified allowlist.

These are enforced in the database rather than in a style guide, because a rule that depends on everyone remembering it is a rule that eventually fails.

Corrections

If something here is wrong, we would rather know. Corrections are made to the page itself and, where the error was material, noted on it.