Establishing a Common Nutritional Vocabulary - From Food Production to Diet
Liliana Andrés‐Hernández, Kai Blumberg, Ramona Walls, Damion Dooley, Ramil Mauleon, Matthew Lange, Magalie Weber, Lauren Chan, Adnan Malik, Anders Bjørn Møller, Jayne Ireland, Lucía Segovia de la Revilla, Xuhuiqun Zhang, Britt Burton‐Freeman, Paul Magelli, Andrew Schriever, Shavawn M. Forester, Lei Liu, Graham J.W. King
Abstract
Informed policy and decision-making for food systems, nutritional security, and global health would benefit from standardization and comparison of food composition data, spanning production to consumption. To address this challenge, we present a formal controlled vocabulary of terms, definitions, and relationships within the Compositional Dietary Nutrition Ontology (CDNO, www.cdno.info) that enables description of nutritional attributes for material entities contributing to the human diet. We demonstrate how ongoing community development of CDNO classes can harmonize trans-disciplinary approaches for describing nutritional components from food production to diet.