Editorial policy

How we choose, describe and correct what's listed. In short: food only, every claim attributed, every find linked to its source.

Updated Oct 27, 2026

What “GLP-1 friendly” means here

“GLP-1 friendly” and similar wording appear here only as a chain's or brand's own label. We quote its exact words and link to where it says them. We never apply the label ourselves.

Orders that people on GLP-1 medications shared are listed as real orders, each linked to the post or article it came from, and are not called GLP-1 friendly. A community pick is an order or grocery find that comes up among people on GLP-1 medications, or that a reader sent us; we check the items on the chain’s or brand’s own page, cite that page, and never name the person or the post. Neither is a health rating, and neither means an item suits any particular person. More on the label itself: what “GLP-1 friendly” means.

What we leave out

  • Doses and medication schedules.
  • Side effects and symptoms, and food described by how it feels or how it agrees with you.
  • Weight numbers and before-and-after stories.
  • “Safe” verdicts of any kind.
  • Supplements, pills, gummies, patches and anything sold as boosting or replacing GLP-1. Electrolyte drink mixes are drinks, and can be listed.
  • Telehealth, compounded drugs, pharmacies and drug prices.
  • Usernames and personal details of the people who post.

Every new find goes through a word check for these before review. A hit holds it until an editor rewrites it; the only exceptions are a chain's or brand's own wording, quoted, and a product or brand name that happens to contain a flagged word, skipped only where the name itself appears; the same words used as a claim still hold the find.

Numbers

Nutrition and prices appear as the source published them, and each number says where it came from:

From the chain or brand
Its own published nutrition.
From the label
The package's Nutrition Facts panel.
Per poster
What the person who posted said. Not checked.
As reported
What a news report or the chain's release said. Not checked.
Per dietitian
What the dietitian who picked it said. Not checked.
Sum of official figures
Our total of the chain's per-item numbers for a combo, noted as such.
Estimate
Our estimate, marked “est.”

When a source gives a range, such as a base drink and the same drink with add-ins, we show both ends. We don't fill gaps from memory: a number the source didn't publish stays blank. Prices vary by location and carry the date we saw them.

How tags are defined

Tags describe facts you can check against the source: size, how it's made, format, swaps and published numbers. We never tag food by how it feels or by symptoms.

Type of find

From the chain's menu
On the chain's or brand's own menu or product list.
Real order
A specific order someone described, linked to where they said it.
Grocery find
A packaged product, with the store where people found it when known.

Source

Chain menu
The chain's or brand's own page or announcement.
News report
A news or trade-press report.
Dietitian pick
Published by a registered dietitian.
Community post, not nutrition-checked
A public post. Its numbers, if any, are the poster's.
Reader report
Sent to us by a reader.
Checked by our team
Confirmed by our team on the chain's own page or app.

Availability

Nationwide
The chain says it's sold at its locations nationwide.
Some areas only
Sold only in some cities or regions, not nationwide. Where the entry names a city, it may be at every location the chain has there.
Limited time
The chain says it's for a limited time.
In test
Being tested in some markets; most people can't order it yet.
Announced
Announced, not on sale yet.
No longer available
The chain or a recent check says it's gone.
Not yet checked
We haven't confirmed it's still sold. Check before you go.

Portion

Regular size
The regular menu size.
Kids size
Ordered from the kids menu.
Senior menu
Ordered from a senior menu.
Lighter portion
A smaller-portion size the chain sells.
Lunch size
The chain's lunch portion.
Half size
A half portion the chain sells.
A la carte
Single items instead of a combo.
Side or snack as a meal
A side or snack eaten as the meal.
Appetizer as a meal
An appetizer eaten as the meal.

Other labels

“{Chain} calls it …”
The chain's or brand's exact wording, shown only when it uses GLP-1 language itself.
Checked {date}
The date we last confirmed the item on the chain's own page or app.
Dated / Reported / Posted {month}
The source's own date: “Dated” for a chain's, brand's or store's page or document, “Reported” for a news story, “Posted” for a person's post (a community or reader post, or a dietitian's). It isn't when the item launched.
Added {month}
When we added the find here, shown when the source has no date of its own.
Mentioned in N posts & articles
How many separate sources mention the same order or item.

AI and human review

An AI model (Anthropic's Claude) helps read sources and draft the short order text and notes. A person reviews every find before it's published: they check it against the source, fix the wording, and reject anything that breaks this policy. The model never adds a health claim in our voice, and the source link is always the record.

Sponsors and independence

Sponsors never pick, rank, edit or remove finds. Sponsored placements are always labelled “Sponsored”, and a sponsor's own items are marked during its campaign. What we accept is in our advertising policy.

Corrections

We fix or remove finds within 2 business days. How to ask, and what removal covers: corrections and removals.

Who's responsible

Daryl S., editor. Runs LilNom and reviews every find before it's published.

Write to the editor at hello@lilnom.com.