Seeking a more refined classification for grain products

[happylilem]

Hi, I was looking for terms that distinguish grain products with fiber, especially soluble fiber, but encountered trouble finding these entries. I'm also interested in more detailed classifications of various grain products such as classifying them by fat content etc. I think the addition of these terms would greatly contribute to the integrity of FoodOn.

[ddooley]

That sounds great (and glad to have you participating in the FoodOn curation team!). There are two ways to approach this:

• via explicit links between classes such as 'bread (high fibre)' subClassOf 'high fibre food product' (a class we will need to add).
• via inference where a reasoner categorizes that a product like 'bread (high fibre)' is a subclass of 'high fibre food product' because of logical axioms about the product's fibre content. This is more complicated but is the direction we are going in with the 'concentration of' x in y google sheet we are setting up.

Note there is a difference between the 'dietary claim or use' information / labelling entities and the foods that are material entities which the labels are about. That is why although we have 'high fibre food' as a label, we probably need 'high fibre food product' as a physical food entity to group products under.

We will discuss this in an upcoming FoodOn curation call.

[ddooley]

Emily will do a gap analysis of what the fibre related hierarchy under "plant seed food product"