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Eight categories, 56 articles
A category is a promise about what a reader will find, not a folder to put things in. Each one states what belongs in it, what does not, and who edits it. If a subject does not sit cleanly inside exactly one of these, we usually do not write it.
Closed set. Adding a ninth is an architecture decision, not an editorial one.
Basics
Definitional, first-encounter explanation. What the substance is, where it comes from, what it tastes like, and what people mean when they use the word.
5 articlesSafety
Anything a reader might search while worried, unwell, or deciding whether a symptom matters. Every page opens with the emergency routing block.
15 articlesScience
Mechanism, chemistry, plant source, measurement, and the honest state of the literature, including where it is thin or contradictory.
8 articlesCulture
The living practice: the Gurung honey hunters, cliff harvesting, and the bee itself. Reported, sourced to named people, photographed with consent.
7 articlesHistory
The documentary record and its limits. Every historical claim is attributed to the text that carries it, with a note on how reliable that text is.
3 articlesComparisons
Like-for-like explanation against something the reader already understands. A comparison never concludes choose this one.
7 articlesGuides
Practical procedure with no dosing component: telling real from adulterated, storage, reading a lab report, declaring goods lawfully at a border.
6 articlesLaw
Legal status by jurisdiction, sourced to statute, agency guidance or published enforcement position, with the date checked shown on the page.
10 pagesWhy categories do not each get a colour
Eight colours would destroy the signal system. Only three categories carry a semantic tint, and only because the tint is doing real work: red marks Safety so a reader can spot it while scanning, teal marks the pages that carry citations and grades, and ochre marks status information that changes and is dated. The other five are distinguished typographically.