NOVA food processing group
ID nova_food_group
DatatypeNot PIIcategoricalDraft
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Group of a food in the NOVA classification by extent and purpose of industrial processing: 1 unprocessed or minimally processed foods, 2 processed culinary ingredients, 3 processed foods, 4 ultra-processed foods. Used in nutrition research and product datasets such as Open Food Facts (nova_group); without that context a single digit is ambiguous.
- Categories
- Agriculture, livestock and food
- Countries
- Global (not tied to a country)
- Languages
- Common to most languages
- Quality
- 80/100 · missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), detector coverage
- Metacrafter rules
- no detection rule yet
- Supported by tools
- no tool record lists this type yet
Regular expression
^[1-4]$Python re syntax.
Examples
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| 1 | Unprocessed or minimally processed foods |
| 4 | Ultra-processed foods |
| 5 invalid | NOVA has four groups |
Translations
| Language | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Russian | Группа NOVA по степени переработки пищевого продукта | Группа продукта в классификации NOVA по степени промышленной переработки: 1 — необработанные или минимально обработанные продукты, 4 — ультраобработанные. |
Sources
- doc: https://www.fao.org/3/ca5644en/ca5644en.pdf
- wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_classification
Use this record
- Page URL:
https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/nova_food_group - JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
- Improve it: edit
data/datatypes/any/agriculture/nova_food_group.yamlon GitHub