[Data-modeling] Modeling nutritional information

[Mohammad Al-Ubaydli]

Works great - please push it to www. Thank you!
mohammad

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Bryan Cheung <bryan.cheung at metaweb.com>wrote:

> 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
>
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> *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
>
>  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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