[Data-modeling] Modeling nutritional information

[Mohammad Al-Ubaydli]

A very productive train ride that was :-)


> The food product should also have properties for the total weight or volume
> and the recommended serving size, so you can calculate nutrient quantities
> and %RDA for a single serving.
>

Agreed, I really want the total weight and volume, as well as the
recommended serving size.

If you also include the country, then the RDA can be calculated, and I would
much prefer that to noting what the manufacturer wrote down as the RDA as a
fact.

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Kirrily Robert <kirrily at metaweb.com> wrote:

> On 25/08/2008, at 12:36 PM, Jeff Prucher wrote:
>
> 4) I think it would be great to find a way to make the nutrient information
> more flexible, rather than only providing a handful of properties. Different
> countries are going to require different things on the labels, and it would
> be nice not to have to change the model for every market.  I don't have a
> good idea just off the top of my head, but it's worth thinking about.
>
>
> I was thinking about this this morning on the train, and thought that the
> best thing would be a CVT with the following properties:
>
> food product
> nutrient
> quantity (grams total)
> % RDA
>
> %RDA varies by country so that's less than ideal, but packaging also
> differs by country, and ingredients might too, so perhaps they are two
> different products.  Eg. 1L of Coke in Australia contains cane sugar and
> would have a different %RDA under Australian nutritional guidelines,
> compared to 1L of Coke in the US where it contains corn syrup and where the
> FDA have different nutritional guidelines.  Since the two bottles have
> different barcodes, I see this as two different products.
>
> The food product should also have properties for the total weight or volume
> and the recommended serving size, so you can calculate nutrient quantities
> and %RDA for a single serving.
>



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