Food recipes data formats

Recipe data to specify the ingredients of foods. Food recipes can be used to describe the ingredients of a composite food (e.g., of apple pie), or to specify the amount of a primary ingredient needed to obtain 100g of the food (e.g., grapes to raisins). Recipe is commonly used recursively (e.g., apple pie contains apple and flour, flour contains wheat).

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Recipes

Accepted table names: FoodTranslations, FoodTranslation, FoodCompositions, FoodComposition.

Table 39 Table definition for Recipes.
Name Type Description Aliases Required

idFromFood

AlphaNumeric (50)

The code of the composite food (from-code), i.e., the code of the food for which the ingredient(s) are specified.

idFromFood, FromFoodId, FromFood, FoodFrom, Food

Yes

idToFood

AlphaNumeric (50)

The code of the ingredient food (to-code).

idToFood, ToFoodId, ToFood, FoodTo, Ingredient

Yes

Proportion

Numeric

Proportion of each ingredient in the food (%).

Proportion, Proportion%

Yes

idPopulation

AlphaNumeric (50)

Unique identification code of the population.

IdPopulation, PopulationId

No