How we make recipes

Recipes on green.recipes are published only after they pass a set of checks designed to catch the mistakes that ruin a dish or make it unsafe. This page describes those checks.

1. A precise draft

Each recipe is drafted for a stated number of servings with a gram weight for every ingredient, including salt and liquids. Items you count, such as garlic cloves, eggs and lemons, also get a count and a typical size. Steps give doneness cues, not only times, and temperatures in both Celsius and Fahrenheit. Drafts are prepared with the help of AI writing tools.

2. Proportions compared with published recipes

For each dish we look up several published recipes for the same dish, convert their ingredients to grams per serving and compare our main ingredients and our salt with the median. If a main ingredient other than water is below half or above double the median and differs from it by at least 15 g per serving, or salt is above one and a half times the median and at least 0.5 g more per serving, the recipe goes back for revision; it cannot be published while such a flag remains. Amounts listed only as to taste are left out of the median. When fewer than three comparable recipes can be found, the reviewers are told so.

3. Two independent reviews

Two AI reviewers from different model families read the full recipe together with the comparison table and the nutrition calculation. One reviews it as a recipe editor: proportions, technique, order of steps, timing, yield, clarity, and the accuracy of names and descriptions. The other reviews food safety and accuracy: safe handling and temperatures, soaking and cooling, allergen and diet labels, units, nutrition plausibility and honest titles. A recipe is published only when both accept it and neither reports a serious problem; otherwise it is revised and reviewed again.

4. Nutrition and labels by code

Nutrition is calculated from USDA FoodData Central, not estimated by a writer. Diet labels and allergens come from the ingredient list by fixed rules. See the nutrition method.

5. Corrections

If something in a recipe does not work for you, write to hello@green.recipes with the recipe name and what happened. Reports go to the editors, and confirmed errors are corrected on the page with a new updated date.

6. Dish images

The dish image on a recipe page is AI-generated, not a photograph. It is made from the recipe's ingredient list and serving step, so it shows only what the recipe uses, and an AI reviewer compares it with the ingredient list before publication. Each image carries a small "AI-generated image" label and an AI marker in the file. Your dish may look different.