About Appetune
Appetune is a nutrition publication for people whose appetite has changed, and for the people cooking for them. This is who it is for, what it will and will not do, and where it currently stands.
Most nutrition advice assumes an appetite you do not have. It assumes three meals, a standard portion, and that the hard part is restraint. When appetite has changed — through illness, treatment, GLP-1 medication, ageing, or recovery — that advice stops being useful and starts being discouraging.
Appetune is written for the other situation: fewer meals, smaller portions, a shorter list of tolerable foods, and the need to make what you can manage count for more.
Who this is for
- People eating less than they used to and unsure whether it matters.
- People on medication that has changed how food works for them.
- People recovering from treatment, surgery, or illness.
- People whose sense of taste or smell has changed.
- People cooking for someone in one of those situations. A large share of our readers never had the appetite change themselves — they are the ones making the food, and most nutrition writing ignores them entirely.
What we will not do
No shame. No before-and-after photography. No language that treats a smaller body as an achievement or a larger one as a failure. No “clean eating”, no “detox”, no exaggerated claims about single foods.
And no pretending to be your clinician. Appetune is nutrition education. It does not diagnose, does not give dosing guidance, and does not replace the people responsible for your care.
Where we are now
Appetune is new. That has one visible consequence, and we would rather explain it than hide it: advice-bearing pages stay in draft until a qualified reviewer has signed them off, and we are still recruiting that reviewer network. The system behind this site will not publish a guide, tool, recipe, or medication summary without an author, a named reviewer, a review date, and sources — so listings that look thin are thin on purpose.
The alternative would be to publish now and add the review later. That is how health misinformation happens, and it is not a trade we are willing to make.
Get in touch
If you are a registered dietitian interested in reviewing, or a reader who found something wrong, the contact page is the fastest route. Our corrections policy explains what happens next.
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