About

I make food for a living.

I work inside the plants that make the products on grocery shelves. Every Sunday I take one of them apart, from what the front claims and what the ingredient list says to how the plant actually makes it and what it costs.

Food manufacturing
Sourcing
FDA & USDA compliance

About Facts

1 teardown per week

Serving size One product, taken apart

Amount per post

SourcesAll

% Daily Value*

Claims checked against a source100%

Label read firsthand100%

Checked against the regulation100%

Claims you can't check0%

How it’s madeStep by step

* Not medical, legal, or dietary advice. Contains: the label, the regulation, and the filing. May contain opinions.

None of it is a secret. It's on the label, in the regulation, or in the manufacturer's own filings. Most people have never been shown how to read the three together.

The label
The regulation
The filing

Why there's no name on this

The short version

I still work in the industry. A name would point at the companies I work with, their customers, and people who have nothing to do with this.

So the posts stand on their own. Every claim points at a label, a regulation, or a document you can open yourself. If you can't check it, I don't post it.

Plant accessVisitor: you

Name: XXXXXXXXXX
Employer: XXXXXXXXXXXXX
Job: Makes food for a living

What stays public: the sourcesRedacted

How a post gets made

Four stations, every post

1Station one
Read the label
Checked against the package or the manufacturer's product page, and dated.
2Station two
Read the rule
In the regulation itself, usually the Code of Federal Regulations, not a story about it.
3Station three
Source the company
From the company, a court or agency record, or the outlet that reported it.
4Station four
Ship the sources
Every source is listed at the bottom of the post.

QC HOLDNothing ships until every claim clears all four stations.

The rules

Signed off, non-negotiable

Quality check · standing rulesRev. 1

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Every claim has a source.

The label, the regulation, or the company’s own filing. If I can’t source it, it doesn’t run.

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What I Buy is what I buy.

What I Buy is food, kitchen gear and a few other things I actually use. Commission links are marked, and your price doesn't change.

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It's not advice.

Nothing here is medical, legal, or dietary advice. It's what the package says and what the rule says.

Passed

Put in a work order.

Send me a product you want taken apart. If it's in a grocery store, it's fair game. Reply to any email and it reaches me, or find me on X, where most of these start.

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