Ingredients ontology

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Project Ingredients/products ontology

Introduction

Why?

Why do we need an ingredients ontology? The ontology describes how ingredients are derived from each other and how ingredients can be combined into new ingredients. An ontology might be useful to:

  • find hidden ingredients - an ingredient might contain hidden ingredients, the ontology might reveal these. For example butter contains butterfat.
  • reveal processed ingredients - often an ingredient is derived from an other ingredient through some process. We can make explicit what these processes are. Example clarified butter is created from butter by separating the milk solids and water from the butterfat.

Theory

What theory can be use to base an food ingredients taxonomy on?

Relationships

The following relationship types can be used to described how

  • contains -
  • derived from -
  • isa -

Example