Excerpt of the FoodOn ontology (https://foodon.org/) about food products, used to integrate food product information in a non-food and food taxonomy in the retail context.
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derives from
member of
food product
A food product made of meat, the skeletal muscle and associated fat, and other edible tissues such as organs, livers, skin, brains, bone marrow, kidneys, or lungs, of mammals.
meat food product
This class includes food products which are derived from or produced by a plant.
plant food product
A seafood product is a vertebrate or invertibrate organism from an aquatic environment.
seafood product
A fine powder made from cereals or other starchy food sources.
flour food product
A liquid produced from the fermentation of ethanol in a process that yields its key ingredient, acetic acid.
vinegar food product
A food product which is derived from or produced by an animal that has a vertibrae.
vertebrate animal food product
cereal grain food product
avian egg food product
A relish, sauce, or seasoning added to food to impart a particular flavour or to complement the dish.
condiment food product
The default nut product is a whole, raw nut - meaning that the kernel is whole, and moderately or significantly dried, but not baked. Minimal references to nuts often leave ambiguous whether the shell is on or off. "I ate a peanut" doesn't clarify whether I ate a shell-off nut or whether I did the shelling.
nut food product
plant seed food product
plant lipid food product
This food product type includes food products which are derived from a large, diverse group of photosynthetic organisms.
algal food product
rice food product
wheat flour food product
herb and spice
herb or spice
A vegetable product such as leaves, flowers, seeds and roots that is rich in essential oils and aromatic principles. Used mainly a a condiment.
spice or herb
dairy product
milk product
A dairy food product has mammilian milk or a milk component as an ingredient.
dairy food product
Mature ovary of a plant, with a fleshy part of the carpel that develops with the seed to attract animals for aid in dispersal. Botanically, nuts are considered fruits.
botanical fruit food product
A food consisting of a round or oval body laid by the female of many animals, consisting of an ovum surrounded by layers of membranes and an outer casing, which acts to nourish and protect a developing embryo and its nutrient reserves.
Regarding American regulatory aspects of egg products, see this summary: https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2016/03/crazy-us-chicken-egg-regulation-graphic-000077
egg food product
A hen egg food product is any food product consisting mainly of hen eggs or derivatives.
hen egg food product
A food product which normally exists as an ingredient to another food product, rather than eaten on its own, and is more complex than a chemical food component.
food product component
An edible plant fat or oil product with characteristics that consumers desire such as bland flavour and odour, clear appearance, light colour, stability to oxidation and suitability for frying, and which is the result of a refining process that removes free fatty acids.
plant fat or oil refined food product
salt product
sodium chloride food product
sweetener food product
A food product consisting of food material derived primarily from a single organism.
food product by organism
flour
SIREN DB annotation: * has quality 'finely ground' (http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FOODON_03430106) * has quality 'not heat-treated' (http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FOODON_03440003) * derives from 'seed, skin removed, germ removed (endosperm)' (http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FOODON_03420208) * formed as a result of 'water removal process' (http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FOODON_03460138) * formed as a result of 'preservation by dehydration or drying' (http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FOODON_03470116)
wheat flour
hen egg (whole, shell on, raw)
spice or herb (us cfr)
grain or starch product (us cfr)
milk or milk product (us cfr)
milled grain or starch product (us cfr)
meat or meat product (from mammal) (us cfr)
dairy product (us cfr)
condiment or relish (us cfr)
nut or nut product (us cfr)
seafood or seafood product (us cfr)
vinegar (us cfr)
oil-producing plant
mammal
nut producing plant
vertebrate animal
algae
rice plant
grain plant
food product organismal source
egg or egg component