Write for us
We take contributed articles on everyday eating, if they help a reader with something specific and the sources stand up.
What we would like to read
- Practical pieces on wholegrains: cooking barley, bulgur or brown rice on a weeknight, or storing them safely
- Breakfasts that fit real mornings, including for shift workers and for households with different diets
- Getting more fibre on a tight food budget, using tins, frozen vegetables and pulses
- Reading labels: claims, serving sizes, ingredients lists, and how to compare products
- Food history and farming, such as oats in Scotland and Ireland, UK grain growing and milling
- School and packed lunches, in line with UK guidance for children
What we will decline
- Weight-loss promises, detoxes, cleanses or "superfood" claims
- Advice on treating or curing a condition, and anything that could put someone off seeing a doctor
- Supplements, pharmaceuticals, gambling, adult content and crypto, including links to them
- Thinly disguised product adverts or brand comparisons without independent evidence
- Anything written mainly for search engines, spun from existing articles or generated and submitted unchecked
The rules
Original work. It must be your own, unpublished elsewhere, and you must have the right to anything you send us. Photographs need a licence that permits commercial use, with the source and author given.
Evidence. Link any health or nutrition claim to a UK or similarly authoritative source: the NHS, GOV.UK, a professional body such as the British Dietetic Association, or a peer-reviewed paper. No invented statistics, case studies, quotes or experts. We check, and we may ask for changes.
Disclosure. Tell us up front about any connection between you, or your client, and anything mentioned or linked in the article. That includes employment, payment and affiliate deals. If a link or placement is paid for or sponsored, it will be labelled, and links may be marked accordingly. An undisclosed interest means we will remove the piece.
Editing. We edit for clarity, accuracy and house style, and may decline a piece at any stage. Publication is not guaranteed by a pitch being accepted.
How to pitch
Email [email protected] with a working title, a few lines on the reader's question and how you will answer it, the sources you plan to use, one or two samples of your writing, and any disclosure. Please send a pitch first, not a finished draft.