Food Court

How we source

We cite. You decide.

Food Court is a search engine for what is publicly known about your food. We do not invent claims. We aggregate findings from regulators, peer-reviewed science, established institutions, and investigative journalism — and we link every one to the publisher who made it.

Every finding carries a tier badge so you can see exactly who is making the claim, and a link to the original source so you can read it yourself.

The four source tiers

  1. 1Regulatory

    Government & intergovernmental bodies.

    e.g. FDA, EPA, USDA, EU EFSA, WHO/IARC, state testing programs, recall databases

  2. 2Peer-reviewed

    Published in indexed journals.

    e.g. PubMed-indexed studies, Cochrane reviews, NEJM, Lancet, JAMA

  3. 3Institution

    Recognized clinical / research / consumer authorities.

    e.g. Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, Harvard T.H. Chan, Consumer Reports, EWG

  4. 4Journalism

    Investigative reporting on lab testing.

    e.g. Reuters, AP, and major newspaper investigations citing their own lab work

The hard rule: nothing below Tier 4 enters the record. No blogs, no influencers, no unsourced “a study showed.” Every finding points to a real URL on a real publisher.

Food Court reports publicly available findings from regulatory bodies, peer-reviewed research, and journalism. We cite every claim. We are not your doctor — we are a search engine for what's known about your food. Follow the links to the original sources.