appears_in: []
contributor:
  email: cthoyt@gmail.com
  github: cthoyt
  name: Charles Tapley Hoyt
  orcid: 0000-0003-4423-4370
depends_on: []
deprecated: false
description: 'Langual stands for "langua alimentaria" or "language of food". it is
  an automated method for describing, capturing and retrieving data about food. the
  work on langual was started in the late 1970''s by the center for food safety and
  applied nutrition (cfsan) of the united states food and drug administration as an
  ongoing co-operative effort of specialists in food technology, information science
  and nutrition. the thesaurus provides a standardized language for describing foods,
  specifically for classifying food products for information retrieval. langual is
  based on the concept that: - any food (or food product) can be systematically described
  by a combination of characteristics - these characteristics can be categorized into
  viewpoints and coded for computer processing - the resulting viewpoint/characteristic
  codes can be used to retrieve data about the food from external databases'
example: B2067
github_request_issue: 507
homepage: https://www.langual.org
keywords: []
mappings: {}
name: Langua aLimentaria Thesaurus
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preferred_prefix: langual
prefix: langual
providers: []
publications: []
synonyms: []
uri_format: https://www.langual.org/langual_thesaurus.asp?termid=$1
