About
About Alana’s Recipes
A small kitchen site about preparations people actually make, written down the whole way and checked honestly.
What this site is
Alana’s Recipes started as a place to keep recipes that were being lost — the kind that travel by word of mouth, get half-remembered, and end up online in six different versions with none of them complete. The rule here has always been the same: if a preparation goes on this site, it goes on in full. The amounts, the steps, the cost, and the parts that do not work.
The site was relaunched in 2026 under new editorial direction. The subject has not changed and will not: this is a home kitchen site, and it stays one.
What happens when somebody makes a health claim
A lot of old preparations arrive with a promise attached. Somebody always says it does something for your blood, your joints, your sleep. When that happens we go and look, and we report what we find even when the answer is the boring one, which it usually is: nobody has checked properly.
We do not treat “unstudied” as “disproven”, and we do not treat a laboratory result on one ingredient as evidence about a drink. Where a claim has not been tested, the page says so plainly and does not soften it. That is the whole editorial position and it is not complicated.
What you will not find here
- A preparation described as a treatment for anything.
- A before-and-after story presented as evidence.
- A recipe held back behind a sign-up, a video, or a purchase.
- A citation that does not go where it says it goes.
Why the pictures are drawings
Every illustration on this site is drawn for the page it appears on. There are no stock photographs here, and there are no generated ones either.
The reason is practical rather than principled. A stock photograph of a mug of something appears on four hundred other sites, and it tells a reader nothing about what is actually in the cup. A diagram of the four ingredients with the amounts on them tells a reader exactly that, at a glance, on a phone. So that is what gets drawn.
Who writes it
Alana Reyes writes and edits the site. Not a doctor, not a nutritionist, and the site never pretends otherwise — which is precisely why claims about health get handed to the published research rather than answered from the desk.
How the site is paid for
Some pages carry advertising links. If a reader follows one and buys something, this publication may be paid a commission by the seller, at no extra cost to the reader. Those links are labelled where they appear.
What that money does not buy is a verdict. The claims review page concludes against every claim it examines, and there is an advertising link on it. Both things are true at once, and if that ever stops being true this page will be the first thing that needs rewriting.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, write and say so. Corrections are made on the page itself and the review date at the top of the article moves when it happens. The address is contact@alanarecipes.com, and the contact page has the postal details.