Some pages on this site carry the byline SugarFreeChic Editorial instead of the home cook. This page explains what that means, so you always know how a recipe or guide was made before you trust its numbers.
Two kinds of pages, two authors
The recipes dated 2012 and 2013 come from a home cook who made them in her own kitchen. Those keep her name. The newer research pages are different: they are developed by the editorial desk from documented, published versions of a dish and from cited nutrition data. Nobody on the editorial desk claims to have cooked and tested them. Labeling a research page as a home-kitchen recipe would be a false claim, so we do not.
What a research page is
For a research page, we read many published versions of a dish and report what each ingredient does, where the versions diverge, and what each choice costs in net carbs, texture, and flavor. When we present a recipe, it is a documented version that real published recipes attest, chosen as the one closest to the consensus of the sources, never an invented combination. When we compare variants, every option is one that appears in real recipes.
Where the numbers come from
Net carbs and other nutrition figures are computed from USDA FoodData Central per ingredient, then summed per serving. We show the math where it matters rather than a single rounded headline number. When a figure is an estimate, we say so.
What we will not do
We do not tell you that an untested combination will work, because nobody tested it. We do not call one version the best. We do not copy another site's wording; we handle facts about recipes, which are not owned, and always write our own text. And we do not build a research page on any topic where a choice affects safety, such as canning, pickling for shelf storage, raw fish, or meat doneness. Those need testing we have not done.
Photos
Where a research page uses an AI-generated illustration, it is labeled as one and never presented as a photo of a tested result. Where it reuses an original 2012 to 2013 photo, the photo illustrates the dish, not the outcome of the research recipe.
Corrections
If a number or a claim on a research page is wrong, we want to fix it. The publisher is Sugarfreechic; reach us through the contact page.