<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">

  <!-- Static pages (tools, utility, about, category hubs, cluster pages) -->
  <sitemap>
    <loc>https://rootsbybenda.com/sitemap-pages.xml</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-04-12</lastmod>
  </sitemap>

  <!-- Blog posts -->
  <sitemap>
    <loc>https://rootsbybenda.com/sitemap-blog.xml</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-04-12</lastmod>
  </sitemap>

  <!-- PRIORITY: ~13,912 enriched ingredient pages (Phase 1b JOIN strategy, April 12 2026).
       Listed FIRST so Google processes it before the base paginated sitemaps.
       Each URL has a matching row in 1+ of ~22 public-sourced enrichment tables,
       giving it genuinely unique content density per page.
       Served via the same handler as base sitemap with ?cohort=priority query param. -->
  <sitemap>
    <loc>https://rootsbybenda.com/sitemap-ingredients.xml?cohort=priority</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-04-12</lastmod>
  </sitemap>

  <!-- BASE: Full ingredient corpus (30,553 URLs, paginated 10K per page).
       Includes the priority cohort (URLs may appear in both — Google normalizes).
       Listed after priority so enriched pages are crawled first. -->
  <sitemap>
    <loc>https://rootsbybenda.com/sitemap-ingredients.xml?page=1</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-04-12</lastmod>
  </sitemap>
  <sitemap>
    <loc>https://rootsbybenda.com/sitemap-ingredients.xml?page=2</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-04-12</lastmod>
  </sitemap>
  <sitemap>
    <loc>https://rootsbybenda.com/sitemap-ingredients.xml?page=3</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-04-12</lastmod>
  </sitemap>
  <sitemap>
    <loc>https://rootsbybenda.com/sitemap-ingredients.xml?page=4</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-04-12</lastmod>
  </sitemap>

</sitemapindex>
