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This project aims to see if it's possible for OpenFoodFacts to support diets in the most generic way.
 
This project aims to see if it's possible for OpenFoodFacts to support diets in the most generic way.
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=== Exploring how Open Food Facts can support any diet===
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=== Exploring how Open Food Facts can support any dietary requirement===
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====Introduction====
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The idea for diets started with the question how vegetarian products are supported by Open Food Facts. It is clear however that these idea's can be extended to any dietary requirement. Other examples of diets are Hallal or Kosher, but also Organic can be seen as a diet.
 
====Diet definition====
 
====Diet definition====
What is a diet exactly? Is there a nice wikipedia definition.
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What is a diet exactly? [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diet_(nutrition) Wikipedia] defines it as
The idea for diets started with the question how vegetarian products are supported by Open Food Facts. It is clear however that these idea's can be extended to any dietary requirement. Other examples of diets are Hallal or Kosher, but also Organic can be seen as a diet.  
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<nowiki>In nutrition, diet is the sum of food consumed by a person or other organism.</nowiki>
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This does not help us much. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diets Wikipedia entry] on diets shows more than 50 different diets (I stopped counting). There are many different reasons and approaches, which are not relevant here. As a working defition I will use:
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<nowiki>A Open Food Fact diet is a subselection of products in the Open Food Fact database.</nowiki>
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This implies that a person who follows a certain diet is only willing to eat specific products.
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====Diet Listings====
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Wikipedia has a very large [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diets listing of Diets]. I am not sure whether they are all relevant for this discussion.
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Examples of diets are:
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* [[Buddhist cuisine|Buddhist diet]]
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* [[Edenic diet]]:
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* [[Hinduism|Hindu]] and [[Jainism|Jain]] diets:
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* [[Islamic dietary laws]]
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* [[I-tal]]
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* [[Kosher foods|Kosher diet]]
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* [[Word of Wisdom]]
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* A vegetarian diet is one which excludes meat.
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* [[Fruitarianism|Fruitarian diet]]
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* [[Lacto vegetarianism]
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* [[Lacto-ovo vegetarianism]]
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* [[Veganism|Vegan diet]]
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===Semi-vegetarian diets===
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{{main|Semi-vegetarianism}}
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* [[Flexitarianism|Flexitarian diet]]: A predominantly vegetarian diet, in which meat is occasionally consumed.<ref>Fellowes, Jessica (14 November 2008). [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/3459737/The-new-vegetarianism-introducing-the-flexitarian.html "The new vegetarianism: introducing the flexitarian"]. ''[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]''. Retrieved 10 March 2012.</ref>
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* [[Kangatarian]]: A diet originating from Australia. In addition to foods permissible in a vegetarian diet, [[kangaroo]] meat is also consumed.<ref>Barone, Tayissa (9 February 2010). [http://www.smh.com.au/news/entertainment/good-living/kangatarians-jump-the-divide/2010/02/08/1265477561439.html "Kangatarians jump the divide"]. ''[[Sydney Morning Herald]]''. Retrieved 17 January 2012.</ref>
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* [[Pescetarianism|Pescetarian diet]]: A diet which includes fish but not meat.
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* [[Vegetarianism|Plant-based diet]]<!--deliberately links to the DAB-->: A broad term to describe diets in which animal products do not form a large proportion of the diet. Under some definitions a plant-based diet is fully vegetarian; under others it is possible to follow a plant-based diet whilst occasionally consuming meat.<ref name="US News & World Report Health">{{cite news|title=Plant Based Diets|url=http://health.usnews.com/best-diet/best-plant-based-diets|accessdate=11 August 2014|work=U.S. News & World Report|publisher=U.S. News & World Report Health|ref=USNWR}}</ref>
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If a consumer wants to make a subselection of the products in the Open Food Database based on ingredients or aspects of ingredients following personal beliefs, then one can see it as a dietary requirement.
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====Diet Listings====
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Wikipedia has a nice, which needs to be copied
   
===Already supported===
 
===Already supported===
 
Open Food Facts already support some support for diets.
 
Open Food Facts already support some support for diets.
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