About Sauce of Truth

Most food advice online is wrong. Not maliciously — just confidently repeated without anyone ever checking.

You've probably been told to refrigerate tomatoes, avoid MSG, or that olive oil can't handle high heat. None of those are as straightforward as they sound. Some are flat-out myths.

Sauce of Truth started because I got tired of food content that either talks down to you or skips the part that actually matters — the why. So I started digging: USDA databases, food science papers, real kitchen experiments.

Every article here is grounded in data. Nutrition numbers come from the USDA FoodData Central. Health claims are traced to peer-reviewed research. And anything I can't verify doesn't make the cut.

The goal isn't to make you a better cook. It's to make you a more skeptical one.