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.
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 -