No, recipes are not considered as intellectual property since you cannot copyright or patent your own lists or instructions. According to the U.S. Copyright Office FL-122, Reviewed December 2011, “Copyright law does not protect recipes that are mere listings of ingredients. Nor does it protect other mere listings of ingredients such as those found in formulas, compounds, or prescriptions.
Copyright protection may, however, extend to substantial literary expression—a description, explanation, or illustration, for example—that accompanies a recipe or formula or to a combination of recipes, as in a cookbook.” This means that although you cannot protect your own ideas for your specific recipe unless you use it as part of trade secrets, you can however protect how your recipe is written.
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