appears_in:
- agro
- envo
- fobi
- maxo
- one
- ons
banana: FOODON
contact:
  email: damion_dooley@sfu.ca
  github: ddooley
  name: Damion Dooley
  orcid: 0000-0002-8844-9165
depends_on:
- bfo
- chebi
- envo
- eo
- ncbitaxon
- obi
- ro
- uberon
deprecated: false
description: FoodOn is a comprehensive and easily accessible global farm-to-fork ontology
  about food that accurately and consistently describes foods commonly known in cultures
  from around the world. It is a consortium-driven project built to interoperate with
  the The Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology Foundry library of ontologies.
download_obo: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/foodon.obo
download_owl: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/foodon.owl
example: 03307879
example_extras: []
homepage: https://foodon.org/
keywords:
- agriculture
- botany
- disease
- environmental science
- food
- medicine
- obo
- ontology
- sustainability
license: CC-BY-4.0
mappings:
  aberowl: FOODON
  agroportal: FOODON
  biocontext: FOODON
  bioportal: FOODON
  fairsharing: FAIRsharing.dzxae
  miriam: foodon
  n2t: foodon
  obofoundry: foodon
  ols: foodon
  ontobee: FOODON
  wikidata.entity: Q55118395
name: The Food Ontology
namespace_in_lui: true
pattern: ^[0-9]{8}$
preferred_prefix: FOODON
prefix: foodon
providers: []
publications:
- doi: 10.1038/s41538-018-0032-6
  pmc: PMC6550238
  pubmed: '31304272'
  title: 'FoodOn: a harmonized food ontology to increase global food traceability,
    quality control and data integration'
  year: 2018
- doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01068
  pmc: PMC5483436
  pubmed: '28694792'
  title: 'Context Is Everything: Harmonization of Critical Food Microbiology Descriptors
    and Metadata for Improved Food Safety and Surveillance'
  year: 2017
rdf_uri_format: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FOODON_$1
repository: https://github.com/FoodOntology/foodon
synonyms: []
uri_format: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FOODON_$1
version: '2025-12-30'
