Food Hierarchy

The Food Hierarchy is how we organize ingredients across Bernie’s University. It helps show how different foods and food components relate to one another. We start with broad categories like animals and plants, then narrow down to food types, like specific parts of a plant or kinds of animal proteins.

Ingredients

Foods

Whole ingredients like Chicken, Pumpkin, or Anchovies.

Food Components

Derivative components of foods, like Anchovy Oil from Anchovies, or Pumpkin Seeds from Pumpkins.

Food Hierarchy

Food Metas

Broadest major food categories like Animals and Plants.

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Food Types

Food subcategories belonging to Food Metas, like the type of animal or the part of the plant typically used for dogs.

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Food Component Groups

Ingredient types derived from foods, such as Fish Oils from Fish or Seeds from Fruiting Bodies of Plants.