Vegan recipes you can actually trust

How our labels work

Every published recipe carries a definite value on seven dietary dimensions: whether it is vegan, whether it contains dairy, egg, alliums, alcohol or honey, and whether it hides an animal ingredient such as fish sauce or rennet. A recipe whose values are unknown is not published at all, so a missing tag is never presented as a clean one.

Some questions do not fit that gate — gluten, soy, nuts, oil, low-FODMAP and weight loss are not purity dimensions. Those are written as a soft tag instead, in the formtagged gluten-free. A soft tag is applied by our editors from the listed ingredients and is presented differently from the seven-dimension result, so the two kinds of statement never look alike on the page.

Where to start

• Beginner guide to vegan cooking — a pantry you can repeat and three meals worth cooking twice.
• UK edition — spelling and measures, and what we cover for readers in the UK.
• The vegwild app — the same label system on your phone.

What we publish

A category hub only opens for indexing once it holds at least three published recipes. Below that the hub still exists for anyone who follows a link to it, but it stays out of search until the catalogue catches up.

We do not pad a hub with drafts to reach that point, and we do not create a page just to hold a phrase. If a category cannot be filled yet, it stays closed.