Clear food guides for the kitchen table.

Someone is told by their doctor to watch their cholesterol, or comes home after having their gallbladder out, and has no clear idea what to actually put on the plate.

Spoonwise gives a clear, friendly, printable answer: what to eat more of, what to swap and what to go easy on, in everyday measures like cups and slices rather than a wall of medical text.

Food advice is easy to find and hard to use at the stove. Critical reviews of printed food guides keep raising the same two complaints: lists that contradict each other, and print too small to read.

We build every guide around fixing both. An automated check stops a food from being listed as one to eat on one page and one to avoid on another within a guide. Food lists are set in readable type, and the A5 fridge sheet keeps only the key foods, in large print.

Each guide is built the same way, from named sources:

• It starts from published guidance by health organizations such as healthdirect Australia, the NHS, Dietitians Australia, the Heart Foundation and the American Heart Association.
• Every nutrient number comes from a national food composition database: USDA FoodData Central, or the Australian Food Composition Database from Food Standards Australia New Zealand. Never from blogs.
• Before a guide is listed, it is checked against current US guidance as well as Australian and UK sources.
• Portions are written as everyday measures, such as cups, slices and ounces.
• Each guide names its sources and the month it was last reviewed.

We use primary sources: government health agencies, national dietetic and heart health organizations, and official food composition databases. Nutrient numbers are taken from a database, not typed in from articles or other food lists.

Spoonwise guides are general information, not medical advice. Use them alongside your care team, never instead of it, and follow the plan your own doctor or dietitian gives you.

Spoonwise is a business name of Drylake Pty Ltd, an Australian company (ABN 70 702 662 557). Our guides are sold as digital downloads on Etsy.