[Data-modeling] Modeling nutritional information

[Bryan Cheung]

I've added the property /business/consumer_product/gtin to sandbox .   
Play around with it and if all looks good, I'll promote it to www.

Bryan

On Aug 25, 2008, at 5:06 PM, Jeff Prucher 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
>
> From: data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com [mailto:data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com 
> ] On Behalf Of Mohammad Al-Ubaydli
> Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 2:46 PM
> To: Freebase data modeling mailing list
> Subject: Re: [Data-modeling] Modeling nutritional information
>
> 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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