Corrections
Last updated April 21, 2026
Our corrections policy
Calorie Tracker Lab corrects factual errors transparently and on a fixed timeline. The intent of this policy is twofold: to be useful to readers who relied on the original (and may be mid-decision when we discover the error), and to make our error rate something readers can audit rather than something they have to take on faith.
72-hour fix policy
When a substantive factual error is reported to us — by a reader, a vendor, a contributor, or our own internal review — we acknowledge it within 72 hours of receipt. Acknowledgment means a written reply confirming we have received the report and stating whether the claim is being investigated, accepted, or rejected.
Where a correction is accepted, we publish the corrected version of the page within 72 hours of acknowledgment (so, 144 hours, or six days, from initial report in the worst case). The corrected page carries a visible correction notice; see the next section.
Visible correction notices
When a page is corrected, the affected page carries a visible correction notice at the top, above the article body, in the publication's standard correction-notice block. The notice includes:
- The date the correction was published.
- A plain-language description of what was corrected (the original wrong claim and the corrected claim).
- Why the correction was needed (e.g., "the original cited a 2023 vendor pricing page that did not reflect the late-2025 plan change").
- Who reported the error, where the reporter has consented to be named.
We do not silently edit substantive errors out of pages. Where a tracked change is purely cosmetic — a typo, a broken link, a misformatted reference — we may correct without a notice. Anywhere we are uncertain whether a change is cosmetic or substantive, we publish a notice.
What counts as a correction
Substantive corrections (notice required):
- Wrong factual claims about an app's pricing, feature set, accuracy score, database, or platform availability.
- Wrong attribution of a quote, study, or position statement.
- Misstatement of a clinical fact (e.g., the wrong protein-target range for a body-recomposition context).
- Score changes driven by recomputation, not by re-testing.
- Statistical errors (a wrongly computed MAPE, an incorrect confidence interval).
Updates that are not corrections (no notice required, but versioned in our update log):
- New test data from a scheduled re-test that updates a published score.
- Refresh of pricing or feature-list facts after a vendor product update.
- New section added in response to a reader question.
- New citation added to support an existing claim.
The distinction is whether the original was wrong (correction) or whether the world moved (update). All updates appear in our update log.
Public correction log
Every correction is logged publicly with the date, the affected page, and a description of what changed. As of the last update of this page, Calorie Tracker Lab has issued zero corrections. The site has been live since August 2025; we expect this number to be non-zero by the end of 2026, and we will publish each one here when it is.
| Date | Page | Description |
|---|---|---|
| No corrections to date. | ||
How to report a correction
Email corrections@calorietrackerlab.com with:
- The URL of the affected page.
- The exact passage you believe is incorrect.
- The corrected information, ideally with a primary source.
- Whether you want to be named in the correction notice.
We treat reasoned correction reports as a contribution and credit external reporters in the correction notice when they consent. We acknowledge every correction email within 72 hours.