How We Use AI

Food Health Lab is an independent educational website. We use artificial intelligence to help prepare our content. This page explains what that means, what it does not mean, and who is responsible.

What AI does here

• Searching and summarising research. AI tools help find studies, reviews and official guidance and summarise what they report.
• Drafting. AI tools help produce drafts of articles, guides and news summaries. Our recipes are AI-generated.
• Checking sources. AI tools help check that cited studies exist and say what the text claims, for example by opening the PubMed record or the official source. Documentation of these checks is being introduced through our new workflow and is not complete for older content.
• Images. Many of our images, including the recipe photographs, are AI-generated. They are not photographs of real events, people or products. Recipe pages are labelled “AI-generated”.
• Formatting and site maintenance. AI tools help with page layout, links and technical work.

What AI does not do

• AI does not set our editorial decisions or guidelines. Those are Bodil Isaksson’s responsibility. Some news articles are published automatically once a topic has been selected; they are not individually reviewed by her before publication, and they carry the “not yet individually scientifically reviewed” label unless they are marked as reviewed.
• AI is not allowed to invent sources, studies, quotations, reviewers, credentials or dates. If a source cannot be verified, we remove or soften the claim instead.
• AI does not give personal medical advice, and nothing on this site replaces advice from a doctor, pharmacist or dietitian.
• AI does not add or change the “Reviewed by” label. That label is used only when the editor has individually reviewed the page.

Editorial responsibility

Bodil Isaksson, a biomedical scientist licensed in Sweden, is the editor and carries the editorial responsibility for the site (see About the Editor). She is responsible for our editorial decisions and guidelines, sets the evidence standards, reviews pages and handles corrections. Some news articles are published automatically once a topic has been selected. She has not individually reviewed every page.

What the labels on a page mean

• “Reviewed by Bodil Isaksson … Last reviewed [date]” means she has individually reviewed the scientific content of that page, as it was on that date.
• “Not yet individually scientifically reviewed” means the page was prepared with AI assistance and has not yet had that individual review. A page can be marked this way even if its sources have been checked.
• “Last updated [date]” shows when the content last changed in a way we can document. It is different from “Last reviewed”. If the science on a page changes substantially after it was reviewed, the page goes back to “not yet individually scientifically reviewed” until it is reviewed again.

Source checks are recorded separately from scientific review. A source check confirms that a cited study exists and what it reports; it is not the same as a scientific review of the page. Documentation of source checks is being introduced through our new workflow; it is not yet complete for older content, so we cannot show a recorded source check for every older page. Pages are marked as reviewed one by one as reviews are completed.

Sources, evidence and independence

We link important claims to sources and describe the strength and limits of the research, including funding and conflicts of interest where relevant. See our Evidence Policy. Affiliate relationships, where they exist, are disclosed in our Affiliate Disclosure.

Mistakes and corrections

AI-assisted content can contain errors, and so can human work. If you find a mistake, an outdated source or missing context, please email info@foodhealthlab.com. We review substantiated corrections and update the page.