Categorization of food by their common names.
This is part of package ifct2017.
Online database: ifct2017.github.io.
const groups = require('@ifct2017/groups');
// groups(query)
// → matches [{code, group, entries, tags}]
groups('cereals');
groups('Millet');
// [ { code: 'A',
// group: 'Cereals and Millets',
// entries: 24,
// tags: 'vegetarian eggetarian fishetarian veg' } ]
groups('what is vegetable?');
groups('vegetable group code?');
// [ { code: 'D',
// group: 'Other Vegetables',
// entries: 78,
// tags: 'vegetarian eggetarian fishetarian veg' },
// { code: 'C',
// group: 'Green Leafy Vegetables',
// entries: 34,
// tags: 'vegetarian eggetarian fishetarian veg' } ]
// Additional methods:
groups.load() // → corpus
groups.sql([table], [options]) // → sql statements
groups.csv() // → path of csv file
Data was obtained from the book Indian Food Composition Tables 2017.
Food composition values were measured by National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad.
Take a peek at the raw data here: Document, Webpage.