Editorial Policy

Diets Meal Plan publishes recipes, meal plans, and nutrition content. Because people use this information to make decisions about their health, we hold every page to the standards below. This policy was last revised in July 2026.

Who We Are

Diets Meal Plan is a family project, not a content farm. Our Food Editor, Damla Sengul, develops and tests every recipe in her kitchen in Wayne, New Jersey. She grew up in Hatay, Turkiye, a UNESCO City of Gastronomy, and the Turkish recipes on this site come from the family table she shares with her brother, Ugur Gulaydin, a marketing executive whose weekend passion is filming the family’s recipes for our YouTube channel and keeping this site running. Andrea, Ugur’s wife, develops our Latin American recipes, and her mother, Mirian Montalvo, a lifelong professional cook and baker from Ecuador, contributes traditional recipes from her sixty years in the kitchen. When we say the whole family taste-tests each recipe before publishing, these are the people we mean.

Around this family core, we work with credentialed nutrition and medical professionals, listed with full bios at the bottom of this page.

How We Create and Test Recipes

Our recipe philosophy is simple: instead of telling people to stop eating their favorite meals and desserts, we recreate them by substituting high-calorie or high-sugar ingredients with better alternatives, and we keep testing until the taste matches the original. The process for the 500+ recipes we have published:

1. Choose a dish worth recreating.
2. Identify the sugar-heavy and calorie-heavy ingredients using the Nutritionix database.
3. Propose natural replacements and prepare the recipe.
4. Taste-test as a family. On average a recipe takes 3 attempts before it passes.
5. Publish only when the healthy version stands next to the original; otherwise, back to step 3.

Every published recipe is prepared and photographed in our own kitchens in Wayne, New Jersey, using ingredients from local stores and farms. Many are also filmed for YouTube, where our viewers hold us accountable in the comments.

Nutrition Data

Nutrition values on our recipe cards are calculated per serving from the exact quantities used, cross-referenced against the Nutritionix database and the USDA Dietary Reference Intakes. They are estimates: actual values vary with brands and portions, and we say so on every card. When a recipe title states a calorie count, it must match the tested card. Where we find a mismatch, we correct the title, not the data.

Expert Review and Medical Review

Meal plans and nutrition guidance are created or reviewed by the credentialed professionals on our team, including registered dietitians and nutritionists such as Karolina Peterova, Brenda Peralta, Kerly Cordova, and Guido Forti. Content that touches medical conditions, such as diabetes, digestive disease, or pregnancy, goes through medical review led by Franco Cuevas, MD. A reviewed page names its reviewer. Health topics are re-reviewed when guidance changes and at minimum once a year.

Sourcing Standards

Health claims on this site must trace to peer-reviewed research, government health bodies, or major medical organizations, and the source must be linked where the claim is made. We do not cite other blogs as evidence, we do not attribute claims to institutions without a linkable source, and where evidence is limited or early, the article says so in plain language. Traditional and cultural claims, like the history of a dish, are presented as tradition, not as science.

Corrections and Updates

When we find an error, we fix the page, update its modified date, and where the error was substantive, note the correction on the page. In July 2026 we completed a sitewide accuracy audit and corrected or removed health claims that did not meet the standards in this policy, including overstatements in our detox and cleanse content. That audit is now a standing process, not a one-time event.

If you find an error anywhere on this site, tell us at social@dietsmealplan.com. We read every report, and substantive corrections are typically live within a week.

Use of AI

AI tools are permitted for two tasks only: grammatical improvement and rephrasing long sentences for readability. Recipes, testing, photography, nutrition data, and health guidance are human work. Our editorial process enforces this with writer style review, AI-detection and plagiarism tools, manual source verification, and editor fact-checks. No detection tool is perfect, which is why the human steps are the ones we rely on.

Advertising and Affiliate Disclosure

Diets Meal Plan is supported by display advertising served by Mediavine. Advertisers have no influence on what we publish, which products we mention, or what our reviews conclude. If a page contains affiliate links, it is disclosed on that page. We do not accept payment for positive coverage, and we do not publish sponsored content presented as editorial.

Our Sister Sites

The same editorial standards apply across our publishing family: grantsformedical.com and doctorable.com.

The People Behind the Content

Full author biographies with credentials and profiles follow below.