OBO Foundry

Food Ontology

A broadly scoped ontology representing entities which bear a “food role”. It encompasses materials in natural ecosystems and agriculture that are consumed by humans and domesticated animals. This includes any generic (unbranded) raw or processed food material found in processing plants, markets, stores or food distribution points. FoodOn also imports nutritional component and dietary pattern terms from other OBO Foundry ontologies to support interoperability in diet and nutrition research

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A broadly scoped ontology representing entities which bear a “food role”. It encompasses materials in natural ecosystems and food webs as well as human-centric categorization and handling of food.

Publications

FoodOn: a harmonized food ontology to increase global food traceability, quality control and data integration

Products

foodon.owl	FoodOn ontology with import file references and over 9,000 food products
foodon_core.owl	FoodOn core ontology (currently the same as foodon.owl)

Usages

User: https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/
Description: FoodData Central nutrition database web portal provided by USDA Agricultural Research Service.
Examples: An entry for 'Apples, fuji, with skin, raw' from the FoodData Central nutrition database which is annotated with the term FOODON:00002862.

User: https://www.fda.gov/food/whole-genome-sequencing-wgs-program/genometrakr-network
Description: FDA GenomeTrackr surveillance program for reporting foodborne pathogen biosamples.
Examples: An entry from NCBI Biosample that describes a *Samonella enterica* sample extracted from Chicken and annotated with the term FOODON:03411457.

User: https://wikifcd.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Main_Page
Description: Wiki database consolidating over 30 global food composition databases.
Examples: An entry from WikiFCD that describes Walnuts and is annotated with the term FOODON:03301364.