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About the veg wiki

Philosophy

Cooking is better with more hands in the pot.

A wiki gets more useful the more it's used. Every recipe links to the ingredients and techniques it uses — and every ingredient links back to the recipes built around it. Nothing here is static: pages grow as the household cooks, and what we learn goes straight back into the site.

No banner ads, no sponsored recipes, no tracking cookies. If something is here, it's because we actually cook it.

Who we are

A household that cooks together

This is a family project, not a publication. Everything is written by and for the people who cook from it, and every recipe is tested at least twice before it's published.

Why we built it

One connected place for what we cook

Most recipe sites are a pile of one-off pages. We wanted the recipes we've actually made, the ingredients and techniques behind them, and a meal planner that remembers everyone's allergies, preferences, and dislikes — all woven into a single system. A family cookbook that never goes out of date.

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Research workspace · Ingredient

Ginger

Aggregate raw research → keep claims with evidence → draft the public research summary.

Research summary

Draft — not yet saved to the ingredient record. Shown on the public page as a working summary, not medical guidance.
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Find Claims generates candidate claims below

Physical claims

2 candidate · 1 kept
Claim generation sources
Evidence sources
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Claims exist — evidence lookup unlocks per claim
🔒 Find Claims above to generate candidates
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Evidence found → citations attach below → Keep unlocks
Attached citations
Moderate Cochrane Library — meta-analysis, ginger vs. placebo for pregnancy nausea
Traditional TCM — Sheng Jiang (fresh ginger) — warming, stomach/spleen channel, anti-nausea action
Evidence schema — all required before Keep
Bibliography references — at least one required
No references attached to this ingredient yet.
Needs evidence tier · type · depth · scope + ≥1 reference
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Evidence found → citations attach below → Keep unlocks
Attached citations
None yet — find evidence above before this claim can be kept.
Evidence schema — all required before Keep
Bibliography references — at least one required
No references attached to this ingredient yet.
Needs evidence tier · type · depth · scope + ≥1 reference

Mental claims

1 candidate · 0 kept
Claim generation sources
Evidence sources
🔒 Find Claims above to generate candidates
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Evidence, then both notes, unlock Keep
Attached citations
None yet — find evidence above before this claim can be kept.
Evidence schema — all required before Keep
Bibliography references — at least one required
No references attached to this ingredient yet.
Needs evidence tier · type · depth · scope + ≥1 reference + both notes
This claim area involves mental-health-related research. Food can support wellbeing, but it isn't a substitute for professional mental health care — please speak to a GP or qualified practitioner about any ongoing concerns.
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Keep at least one claim to unlock Generate summary
1 claim(s) kept — summary can be regenerated from what's kept.