---
id: "nova_food_group"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["agriculture"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 80
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/nova_food_group"
---

# NOVA food processing group (`nova_food_group`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

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.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Agriculture, livestock and food (agriculture)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: categorical

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^[1-4]$
```

## Examples

- `1` — Unprocessed or minimally processed foods
- `4` — Ultra-processed foods
- `5` (invalid example) — NOVA has four groups

## Translations

- ru: 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>

## Quality

Score 80/100. Missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), detector coverage.

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/nova_food_group.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/agriculture/nova_food_group.yaml>