1. AI Generated? — is the image real or synthetic

Pick Yes if you see any of these:

• Garbled or nonsense text on packs / menus / labels
• Melted or plastic-looking food, unnaturally glossy surfaces
• Impossible geometry — spoons merging into bowls, warped edges, floating shadows
• Malformed hands, extra fingers, mismatched cutlery pairs
• Too-perfect symmetry, dreamy blur, lighting with no clear source
• Brand logo close but wrong (spelling, proportions, colours)

Pick No for real photos: readable pack text, natural crumbs/stains/reflections, ordinary shadows, phone-camera or studio look.

Pick Not sure only when signals conflict — never guess.

2. Item Count — how many distinct products are visible

• Count distinct product types, not pieces: 6 identical laddoos = 1
• A thali with rice, dal and paneer = 3
• Multipack of the same SKU = 1; a 3-flavour variety pack = 3
• Ignore props — plates, cutlery, napkins, backgrounds don't count
• Garnish (coriander, lemon wedge) doesn't count unless it's the product
• Menu board: count the dishes listed, not the photos

3. Content Type — what the image is doing

• Menu — a list of dishes with names/prices; restaurant board or card
• Cuisine — a prepared, plated dish; food styling with no pack or offer
• Product — packaged goods in focus: bottle, jar, pouch, box, label readable
• Marketing — promo copy dominates: discount %, "Buy 1 Get 1", sale badge, brand campaign
• Seasonal — tied to a festival or season: Diwali, Christmas, Halloween, Ramadan, summer/monsoon theme

Overlap rule: festival theme wins over everything → Seasonal. Otherwise a visible offer/price promo → Marketing. Then pack in focus → Product. Then plated food → Cuisine.

• Unnatural dripping or sauces — liquid flows in a way gravity wouldn't allow, or sauce sits impossibly on the food
• Odd / floating garnishes — herbs, toppings or garnish appear stuck mid-air or placed with no contact point
• Unrealistic food orientation or placement — items balanced or angled in a way that couldn't happen naturally
• Steam leaving a glass or dish unrealistically — steam rises from a cold item, or in an odd direction/shape
• Food texture looks synthetic — surface looks plastic, waxy, or too smooth/perfect for real food
• Artifacts / pieces look identical — multiple pieces (fries, nuts, slices) are exact clones of each other
• Incorrect branding on a branded item — logo, label text or packaging design doesn't match the real brand
• Non-food background elements look off — table, plate, cutlery or backdrop has warped or nonsensical shapes
• Item appears / disappears on its own — (video) something in frame pops in or vanishes with no cause
• Unnatural hand / utensil movement — (video) hand or utensil moves in a jerky, warped or physically odd way
• Item shape, size, or color changes mid-motion — (video) the same object visibly morphs between frames
• Overlapping / unrealistic placement — objects intersect or stack in a way that isn't physically possible
• Blurring, distortion, or pixels breaking up — localized smearing, warping or pixel artifacts, especially at edges
• Odd angle / orientation of plate or table — surface or plate is tilted/rotated in a way that breaks perspective
• Extra / irrelevant or omitted items — something appears that doesn't belong, or an expected item is missing

Tick any that apply when marking AI Generated? — more matches = stronger case for "AI-generated".

• Appetizing — food looks fresh, appealing, well-styled and ready to attract the viewer
• Cooking — food shown mid-preparation, actively being cooked (on flame, in pan, in oven)
• Assembled — food is plated/packaged and ready to serve, not being cooked or eaten
• Messy — spilled, smeared, or untidy presentation that looks unappetising due to disorder
• Consumed — food is partly eaten, bitten into, or shown as leftovers
• Uncooked — raw ingredients shown before any cooking (raw meat, vegetables, dough, etc.)
• Poor — burnt, stale, discoloured or otherwise unappetising due to quality, not mess
• Other — doesn't clearly fit any of the above categories