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Term: food additive (food_additive)

A substance or substances added to food to maintain or improve safety and freshness, to improve or maintain nutritional value, or improve taste, texture and appearance. This field accepts terms listed under food additive (http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FOODON_03412972). Multiple terms can be separated by one or more pipes, but please consider limiting this list to the top 5 ingredients listed in order as on the food label. See also, https://www.fda.gov/food/food-ingredients-packaging/overview-food-ingredients-additives-colors

URI: MIXS:0001200

Applicable Checklists and Extensions

NOTE: does not include Combinations (of checklists and extensions) that use food_additive.

Name Description Checklist/Extension
FoodFoodProductionFacility A collection of terms appropriate when collecting samples and performing sequ... Extension
FoodHumanFoods A collection of terms appropriate when collecting samples and performing sequ... Extension
FoodAnimalAndAnimalFeed A collection of terms appropriate when collecting samples and performing sequ... Extension

Properties

  • Range: String
  • Cardinality: 0..*

Examples

Value
xanthan gum [FOODON:03413321]

Annotations

  • Expected_value: FOODON:03412972

LinkML Source

name: food_additive
annotations:
  Expected_value:
    tag: Expected_value
    value: FOODON:03412972
description: A substance or substances added to food to maintain or improve safety
  and freshness, to improve or maintain nutritional value, or improve taste, texture
  and appearance.  This field accepts terms listed under food additive (http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FOODON_03412972).
  Multiple terms can be separated by one or more pipes, but please consider limiting
  this list to the top 5 ingredients listed in order as on the food label.  See also,
  https://www.fda.gov/food/food-ingredients-packaging/overview-food-ingredients-additives-colors
title: food additive
examples:
- value: xanthan gum [FOODON:03413321]
from_schema: https://w3id.org/mixs
keywords:
- food
string_serialization: '{text}|{termLabel} [{termID}]'
slot_uri: MIXS:0001200
multivalued: true
alias: food_additive
domain_of:
- FoodAnimalAndAnimalFeed
- FoodFoodProductionFacility
- FoodHumanFoods
range: string