Good food for your table

Our ingredient standard

Our public recipes focus on familiar foods and useful homemade staples.

Sharing a recipe

If a recipe lists an ingredient outside our standard—such as canola oil, palm oil, hydrogenated fats or Red 40—we identify it and offer alternatives before you submit. Choose what works for your recipe, then review the amounts and directions. Public recipes still go through our normal review.

Everyday ingredients such as bread, cheese, yogurt and canned beans are welcome. You choose the products you buy and check their labels.

Your private recipes

Recipes you keep for yourself do not need to follow the public ingredient standard.