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.

Prefix

foodon

Preferred Prefix

FOODON

Keywords

agriculture botany disease environmental science food medicine obo ontology sustainability

Version

2025-06-07

License

CC-BY-4.0

Links

Homepage Repository OBO OWL

Contact

Damion Dooley   0000-0002-8844-9165   ddooley

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in The Food Ontology should match this regular expression:
^[0-9]{8}$

Example Local Unique Identifier

03307879   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from The Food Ontology should match this regular expression:
^FOODON:[0-9]{8}$

Example CURIE

FOODON:03307879

MIRIAM Namespace Embedded in LUI

The legacy MIRIAM standard for generating CURIEs with this resource annotates the namespaceEmbeddedInLUI as true. This means that you may see local unique identifiers that include a redundant prefix and delimiter (also known as a banana) and therefore look like a CURIE. For , the banana looks like FOODON:. Therefore, you may see local unique identifiers for this resource that look like FOODON:03307879 (instead of the canonical form 03307879) and CURIEs for this resource that look like FOODON:FOODON:03307879 (instead of the canonical form FOODON:03307879). The Bioregistry will automatically strip off the banana when standardizing local unique identifiers and CURIEs.

Publications

• 2018 FoodOn: a harmonized food ontology to increase global food traceability, quality control and data integration
• 2017 Context Is Everything: Harmonization of Critical Food Microbiology Descriptors and Metadata for Improved Food Safety and Surveillance

A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.

Depends On (8) (bioregistry.schema:0000017 )

BFO CHEBI ENVO EO NCBITaxon OBI RO UBERON

Appears In (6) (bioregistry.schema:0000018 )

AGRO ENVO FOBI MAXO ONE ONS

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 10 mappings to external registries for this resource with 2 unique external prefixes.

When using this resource in RDF, the following URI format should be used:

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FOODON_$1

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier 03307879 is used to demonstrate the providers available for The Food Ontology. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.