[Data-modeling] Modeling nutritional information

[Mohammad Al-Ubaydli]

Sound good - I've just made the change, and will delete the "Retail data"
type soon, but could somebody add the GTIN to the "consumer product" first?
Many thanks,
mohammad

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 1:06 AM, Jeff Prucher <jeff at metaweb.com> wrote:

>  I just checked the fridge, and as far as nutritional information goes,
> both food and drink use grams (at least in the US).
>
> Looking at the types again, I think your two types could be collapsed into
> a single "Food product" (or whatever) type. It would have the properties for
> nutritional information, RDA (if you use it), serving size, etc. It would
> have "consumer product" as an included type, and get the GTIN from there.
>
> Jeff
>
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> data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com] *On Behalf Of *Mohammad Al-Ubaydli
> *Sent:* Monday, August 25, 2008 2:46 PM
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> *Subject:* Re: [Data-modeling] Modeling nutritional information
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>  On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:02 PM, Jeff Prucher <jeff at metaweb.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> >       3) The name of the "retail data" type should probably
>> > be something that more clearly describes the topics that will
>> > use that type -- something like "Food product" or "Packaged
>> > food" or something like that.
>> >
>> >
>> > Agreed. But also, would that include drinks like milk, or
>> > should a different type be created?
>>
>> I would include drinks and eats in the same type for this, since
>> nutritionally, it doesn't matter whether it's liquid or solid. So maybe
>> "food" will be misleading for some people. It could be simply "Food or
>> Drink
>> Product" or the like (and doesn't that phrase make it sound tasty?)
>
>
> Sorry, what I meant to say was, does drink have different properties (e.g.
> a volume rather than a mass) that require a different data model? If not,
> then I much prefer your suggestion of just "food" rather than the less than
> appetizing "food or drink product" :-)
>
>>
>> The USDA has a lovely, copyright-free database with quantitative
>> information
>> about packaged food, which measures an insane amount of nutrients. You can
>> search the data here: http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/ and
>> download it here: http://www.ars.usda.gov/Services/docs.htm?docid=8964
>
>
> Fabulous, I would like to upload this. I can take care of renaming and
> rearranging the column headings to match the ones I currently have in
> Freebase, but do I need someone from the Metaweb team to do the uploading
> for me?
>
> mohammad
>
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