About Dose Matters

• Amount and frequency matter more than presence on a label.
• Context matters — who is eating, how much, and how often.
• Some wellness concerns deserve attention.
• Some online claims outrun the evidence.
• Regulatory approval does not settle every question.
• Suspicion alone is not evidence.

• Call a product safe, unsafe, healthy, unhealthy, clean, dirty, or toxic.
• Make disease claims.
• Imply ingredient presence alone proves harm.
• Present wellness concern terms like "leaky gut" or "detox overload" as settled diagnoses.

• Distinguishes concern from evidence strength.
• Separates exposure plausibility from theoretical risk.
• Flags uncertainty honestly.
• Identifies claim inflation where it exists.
• Keeps tone skeptical, calm, and plain-language.

Dose Matters covers packaged foods and dietary supplements. It does not cover fresh produce, restaurant meals, or homemade food. It does not have user accounts, social features, or a chatbot. Your supplement stack is stored locally in your browser and never sent to a server.

• Food product data: Open Food Facts (open-source food database), with USDA FoodData Central as a fallback for US branded products
• Supplement product data: NIH Dietary Supplement Label Database (DSLD), a public database of supplement labels maintained by the National Institutes of Health
• Supplement evidence library: 12 curated supplement categories with dose ranges, evidence summaries, and caution notes drawn from peer-reviewed literature
• Ingredient concern library: Curated from peer-reviewed literature and regulatory reports
• Scoring: Custom threshold-based models for both food and supplement interpretation (see Method page)