Ontology

FOODON

The Food Ontology

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.

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A87

FAIR 47/48

Version 2026-09-20

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepagefoodon.org Repositorygithub.com DownloadCanonical file / PURL Browse in OLSEMBL-EBI Ontology Lookup ServiceBrowse in BioPortalNCBO BioPortalBrowse in OBO FoundryOBO Foundry registry

Portals & registries

SourceIDVersionClassesPropertiesIndividualsLoaded
OLS (EMBL-EBI)foodon2026-02-0240,10712443525 Oct 2026
OBO Dashboardfoodon2025-12-3031,261——24 Feb 2026

Ontology IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/foodon.owl
Version IRI http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/foodon/releases/2026-09-20/foodon.owl

Languages af ar arz as bn ca cz da de de-at en en-au en-br en-ca en-gb en-pk en-uk en-us es fa fr fr-ca frc ge gsw gu haw hi hop hu it ja jp jv ko lmo mi ml mr my nah pa pdc pt pyn ru sd sk swg syl ta th tl-ph tr uk vi ykp ypk zh zh-hans zh-hant zh-tans zh-tant zu

Imports from (32)
AfPO AGRO BFO BTO CDNO CHEBI CL COB DRON ECOCORE ENVO FAO FLOPO GAZ GENEPIO GO HANCESTRO IAO MSIO NCBITaxon NCIT OBI ONS PATO PCO PO PR RO schema.org UBERON UO EO

Reused by (18)
DOID ECTO ENVO FOBI GENEPIO MAXO ONS ADO AGRO DISDRIV ENM EUPATH FIDEO MONDO OBI PECO VALUESETS ONE

Logical consistency
consistent · 0 unsatisfiable
OWL 2 DL
no
ROBOT report
0 errors · 14,482 warnings · 0 info
OBO principles
FP01FP02FP03FP04FP05FP06FP07FP08FP09FP11FP12FP16FP20
Axioms
230,728 · 7.69% entities reused

Also registered as
aberowl: FOODON agroportal: FOODON bioportal: FOODON fairsharing: FAIRsharing.dzxae obofoundry: foodon ols: foodon ontobee: FOODON wikidata.entity: Q55118395

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR12/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)purl.obolibrary.org+4
  • Indexed in services (F4)5: OLS, BioPortal, OBO Foundry, Bioregistry, FAIRsharing+5
  • Citable reference (F2)doi:10.1038/s41538-018-0032-6+3
A Accessible FAIR12/12
  • Homepage reachableHTTP 200+3
  • Artefact retrievable over HTTP(S) (A1)download HTTP 200+6
  • Metadata persists in a registry (A2)OBO Foundry, Bioregistry+3
I Interoperable FAIR12/12
  • Formal machine-readable format (I1)OWL, OBO+5
  • Semantic-web IRIs (I2)OWL, OBO+3
  • References other vocabularies (I3)imports 32: afpo, agro, bfo, bto, cdno, chebi, cl, cob…+4
R Reusable FAIR11/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)CC BY 4.0+5
  • Release provenance (R1.2)2026-09-20 (version IRI in the artefact)+4
  • Community standards (R1.3)OBO principles: 10/13 checks pass+2
Q Ontology consistency & quality17/20
  • Logical consistencyconsistent, 0 unsatisfiable classes (OBO Dashboard)+10
  • OWL 2 DL profileoutside OWL 2 DL0
  • Upper-ontology alignmentimports BFO, COB+3
  • Standard relations (RO)imports RO+1
  • ROBOT report: no errors0 errors+2
  • ROBOT report: warning density14482 warnings / 31261 classes = 0.460
  • Pitfall scan: no critical pitfallsno pitfall scan yet; ROBOT report has 0 errors+1
M Maintenance12/16
  • Recency2026-10-19 → 0.2 months (≤ 3 months)+10
  • Release cadence (12 months)1 release (GitHub releases)+2
U Community adoption11/16
  • Documented adopting projects3 projects+4
  • Reused by other ontologies18: doid, ecto, envo, fobi, genepio, maxo…+3
  • Community signalmax(stars 245 → 4, citations 51 → 2)+4
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)0
  • Time since last activity0.0 years → 4 × max(0, 0.0 − 1)0
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0
  • Consistencyconsistent, no unsatisfiable classes0

FAIR subtotal 47/48 · earned 87/100 = 87/100 → grade A

Community adoption 3

  • fdc.nal.usda.gov

    FoodData Central nutrition database web portal provided by USDA Agricultural Research Service.

    Source: OBO Foundry registry
  • fda.gov

    FDA GenomeTrackr surveillance program for reporting foodborne pathogen biosamples.

    Source: OBO Foundry registry
  • wikifcd.wikibase.cloud

    Wiki database consolidating over 30 global food composition databases.

    Source: OBO Foundry registry

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History & changes 1 run

History starts with the first archived run; changes appear after the next evaluation.

RunScoreFAIRVersion evaluatedTermsSnapshot
26 Oct 2026, 03:31 UTC87 A472026-09-2040,107JSON

Provenance

Every fact on this page was fetched automatically. Each row shows where it came from and when. If a source fails, the last good value is kept and marked “carried forward”.

FactSourceRetrieved
Homepage link check (HTTP 200)foodon.org26 Oct 2026, 02:56 UTC
Repository link check (HTTP 200)github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:56 UTC
Download link check (HTTP 200)purl.obolibrary.org26 Oct 2026, 02:56 UTC
Artefact header (version IRI)raw.githubusercontent.com26 Oct 2026, 02:56 UTC
Git refs (commit cd73540, latest tag v2025-07-31)github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:56 UTC
GitHub repository statisticsapi.github.com26 Oct 2026, 02:56 UTC
OLS classes, imports, version & releaseebi.ac.uk26 Oct 2026, 02:56 UTC
OBO Foundry status, license & usagesobofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 02:56 UTC
OBO Dashboard (checked 24 Feb 2026)dashboard.obofoundry.org26 Oct 2026, 02:37 UTC
Crossref citations (doi:10.3389/fmicb.2017.01068)api.crossref.org26 Oct 2026, 02:56 UTC

Run 2026-10-26T02-37-38Z · evaluator v2.0.0 · rubric v3.4 · entry.json · run snapshot

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