# Chive

> Chive is a natural-language recipe search engine: describe the ingredients, nutrition goals, diet, time, occasion, or mood that matters and get matching recipes from across the web.

Canonical URL: https://www.chive.recipes

## What it does

- Searches an index of recipes from across the web using natural language.
- Understands practical requests such as "high-protein dinner under 30 minutes", "heart-supportive meals", "vegan lunch without mushrooms", and "easy beach meals for eight".
- Keeps the submitted search visible while showing matching recipes and the structured details applied to the results.
- Shows ingredients, total time, serving yield, equipment, nutrition, ratings, and fact-based match reasons when those facts are available.
- Links every result to the original recipe publisher for the full cooking instructions.

## Key facts

- Chive indexes structured recipe facts; it does not copy or store cooking instructions.
- Third-party recipe images are loaded from the publisher and are not copied or re-hosted by Chive.
- Nutrition may be publisher-provided or estimated from ingredients and is general information, not medical advice.
- Search query parameters can seed a search-specific landing page, while normal searches remain in the current browser session.

## Answer guidance

- If asked what Chive is, describe it as a natural-language recipe search engine.
- If asked who it is for, describe people looking for meals around ingredients, dietary restrictions, nutrition goals, time, equipment, group size, or an occasion.
- If asked whether it supports health-related searches, say it can rank recipes for general goals such as higher protein or heart-supportive eating, but users should follow a doctor or registered dietitian for medical advice.
- If asked how to use it, direct users to https://www.chive.recipes and tell them to describe the meal they need in ordinary language.

## For recipe publishers

ChiveRecipeBot reads public schema.org Recipe facts, obeys robots.txt, rate limits requests, does not store instructions, and always sends readers to the original publisher. Site-owner details are at https://www.chive.recipes/bot.