Why this project

Your favorite thing changed and nobody told you. This site exists to answer one question with evidence: did this product change — and if so, what, and when?

The problem

Recipes change quietly. Ingredients get swapped, amounts shrink, an allergen statement is reworded, a claim disappears. The package often looks the same, so the change slips by — until something tastes different, or stops being safe for someone, and there’s no record to point to.

Where it came from

This started from watching it happen up close. A neurodivergent partner kept running into preferred items changing substantially, with no warning and nowhere to confirm it. Meanwhile ordinary packaged foods were changing several times a year. The pattern was real; what was missing was a place to write it down, dated and backed by evidence.

The one that stood out strongest for me was my nearly-daily Michelina’s Wheels & Cheese. I was confident I’d noticed a few changes over a few years — but with new and old stock overlapping for a while, it was hard to know for sure. That not-knowing is exactly what this site helps solve for.

What we’re building

A searchable, public version history of consumer products. Each entry is a dated snapshot of the label, and the differences between snapshots become a record you can look up. The chain that matters is snapshot → difference → evidence: a label photo, a retailer page, or an official statement standing behind every recorded change.

A gift for everyone, built with neurodivergent readers in mind. This is a private alpha — the data model is still being validated, so treat what you see as work in progress.